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Each initiative petition and each referendum petition shall be duplicated for the securing of signatures, and each sheet for signatures shall be attached to a copy of the petition. Each copy of the petition and sheets for signatures are hereinafter termed a pamphlet. On the outer page of each pamphlet shall be printed the word "Warning" as authorized by 34 O.S. § 3 and underneath this in ten-point type the words, "It is a felony for anyone to sign an initiative or, referendum petition with any name other than his own, or knowingly to sign his name more than once for the measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a legal voter". A simple statement of the gist of the proposition shall be printed on the top margin of each signature sheet. Not more than 40 signatures on one sheet shall be counted. Any signature sheet not in substantial compliance with this section shall be disqualified by the City Clerk.
(`91 Code, § 22-3) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )
If any measure shall, at the ensuing election, be approved by the people, then the copies of the petitions, with the sheets of signatures and affidavits, and a certified copy of the Mayor's proclamation declaring the same to have been approved by the people, shall be bound together in such form that they may be conveniently identified and preserved. The City Clerk shall cause every such measure so approved by the people to be printed with the general laws of the city.
(`91 Code, § 22-4) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )
Each sheet of every such petition containing signatures shall a verified on the back thereof, in substantially the following form, by the person who circulated the sheet of the petition, by his or her affidavit thereon as a part thereof. The person circulating such petition shall be a qualified elector of the city:
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County of Logan )
I, , being first duly sworn, say: That I am a qualified elector of the City of Guthrie, Oklahoma and that (here shall be legibly written or typewritten the names of the signers of the sheet), signed this sheet of the foregoing petition, and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated his name, post office address, and residence correctly and that each signer is a legal voter of the City of Guthrie, Oklahoma. (Signature and post office address of affiant.) Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of A.D., 20 . (Signature and title of the officer before whom oath is made and his post office address.)
(`91 Code, § 22-5) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )
The City Clerk shall disqualify all signatures on any sheet of any petition which is not verified by the person who circulated the sheet of the petition as provided in the preceding section, and the Clerk shall notify the City Attorney of any and all violations of this title of which he has knowledge.
(`91 Code, § 22-6) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )
When a citizen or citizens desire to circulate a petition initiating a proposition of any nature, whether to become an ordinance or an amendment to the Charter, or for the purpose of invoking a referendum upon Council enactments, such citizen or citizens shall, when such petition is prepared, and before the same is circulated or signed by electors, file a true and exact copy of same in the office of the City Clerk and, within 90 days after such filing of an initiative petition, the signed copies thereof shall be filed with the City Clerk, but the signed copies of a referendum petition shall be filed with the City Clerk within 30 days after the passage of the ordinance on which the referendum is invoked. The electors shall sign their legally registered name, their address in the city. Any petition not filed in accordance with this provision shall not be considered.
(`91 Code, § 22-7) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )
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