Any elective official provided for in this Charter may be removed from office by the electorate qualified to vote for a successor to such officer. Such officer shall be subject to removal in such manner as is now or may be hereafter provided by this Charter. The procedure to effect such removal shall be as follows:
A petition demanding that the question of removing such official be submitted to the electors qualified to vote for his or her successor shall be addressed to the Council and filed with the Clerk thereof. The petition shall contain a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds upon which removal of such person is sought. Such petition shall be signed by registered voters (electors) equal in number to at least twenty-five (25) percent of the total vote cast at the election for such office, at the last preceding general Municipal election.
(Adopted November 4, 1969)