At the expiration of said period of thirty days, the Clerk of the Council shall certify upon such petition whether the signature of electors thereto amount in number to at least twenty-five (25) percent of the voters voting at the last regular municipal election of officers. If such signatures do amount to such percent, he shall at once serve notice of that fact upon the member or members of the Council designated in the petition, and also deliver to the election authorities a copy of the original petition with his certificate as to the percentage of voters voting at the last regular municipal election of officers who signed the same, and a certificate as to the date of his said notice to the member or members of the Council designated in the petition.
(Amended 11-8-77)