The electors shall have the power to remove from office, by recall election, any elected officer of the Municipality.
If an elected officer shall have served for six (6) months of a term, a petition demanding his or her removal may be filed with the Clerk of Council who shall note thereon the name and address of the elector filing the petition, and the date of such filing. Such petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and filed as one instrument.
Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought, and a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds for removal. Such petition shall be signed by the number of electors which equals twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of electors voting for the candidates for Councilmember. Within ten (10) days after the day on which such petition is filed, the Clerk of Council shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof.
If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk shall promptly certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the certificate to the person who filed the petition with the Clerk, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after the day on which such delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient. If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to the Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the officer whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery. If such officer shall not resign within five (5) days after the day on which such delivery shall have been made, the Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty (60) days nor more than seventy-five (75) days after the date of such delivery.
At such recall election, conducted by the Board of Elections of Montgomery County, Ohio, as stated in Section 11.02, this question shall be placed on the ballot: "Shall (naming the officer) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?" with provision on the ballot for voting affirmatively or negatively on such question. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such officer shall remain in office. If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such officer shall be considered as removed, said office shall be deemed vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled as provided in this Charter. The officer removed by such recall election shall not be eligible for appointment to the vacancy thereby.
(Amended November 2, 1976)