The City Secretary shall at once examine the recall petition and if he finds it sufficient and in compliance with the provisions of this article of the Charter, he shall within five (5) days submit it to the City Council with the City Secretary's certificate to that effect, and notify the officer sought to be recalled of such action. To be valid, a petition submitted for the purpose of complying with a recall election process shall comply with the V.T.C.A., Election code, as amended. If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign within five (5) days after such notice, the City Council shall thereupon order and fix a date for holding a recall election. Any such election shall be held not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days after the petition has been presented to the City Council or after the public hearing provided in section 14.10 is held, if such hearing is requested, at the same time as any municipal election held within such period; but if no such municipal election be held within such period, the City Council shall call a special election to be held within the time aforesaid.
All qualified voters of the city shall be entitled to cast ballots in a recall election of the Councilman elected at large and all qualified voters in the district in which a recall election for a Councilman elected from the district shall be entitled to cast ballots in the recall election in that district.
Ballots used at recall elections shall conform to the following requirements:
(a) With respect to each person whose removal is sought, the question shall be submitted "Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of Councilman by recall?"
(b) Immediately below each such question there shall be printed the two (2) following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated:
"For the recall of (name of person)"
"Against the recall of (name of person)".