CHAPTER 5. INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL
SEC. 5.01 POWERS RESERVED BY THE PEOPLE.
   The people of Le Sueur, Minnesota reserve to themselves the power, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, to initiate and adopt any ordinance, except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, to require such an ordinance when passed by the council to be referred to the electors for approval or disapproval, and to recall elected public officials. Those powers shall be called the initiative, the referendum, and the recall respectively.
SEC. 5.02 EXPENDITURES BY PETITIONERS.
   No member of any initiative, referendum, or recall committee, no circulator of a signature paper, and no signer of any such paper, or any other person, shall accept or offer any reward, pecuniary or otherwise, for services rendered in connection with the circulation thereof, but this shall not prevent the committee from paying for legal advice or from incurring expenses for stationery, copying, printing and notaries' fees. Any violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 556, passed 6-27-2016)
SEC. 5.03 FURTHER REGULATIONS.
   The council may provide by ordinance such further regulations for the initiative, referendum, and recall, not inconsistent with this Charter, as it deems necessary.
INITIATIVE
SEC. 5.04 INITIATION OF MEASURES.
   Any five electors may form themselves into a committee for the initiation of any ordinance except as provided in section 5.01. Before circulating any petition they shall file a verified copy of their proposed ordinance with the city clerk, together with their names and addresses as members of such committee. They shall also attach a verified copy of the proposed ordinance to each of the signature papers herein described, together with their names and addresses as sponsors.
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