The electors shall have the power to remove from office by a recall election any elected officer of the Municipality. If an elected officer shall have served for six months of the officer’s term, a petition demanding the officer’s removal may be filed with the Clerk who shall note thereon the name and address of the person filing the petition and the date of such filing. Such petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and filed as one instrument. Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and a statement in not more than two hundred words of the grounds for the removal. Such petition shall be signed by at least that number of electors which equals 25% of the electors voting at the last preceding general election. Within ten days after the day on which such petition shall have been filed, the Clerk shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof. If the Clerk shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk shall promptly certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the Clerk’s certificate to the person who filed the petition, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty days after the day on which such delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient. If the Clerk shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to the Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the officer whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery. If such officer shall not resign within five days after the day on which such delivery shall have been made, the Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty nor more than seventy-five days after the date of such delivery. At such recall election, this question shall be placed on the ballot: “Shall (naming the officer) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?” with provision on the ballot for voting affirmatively or negatively on such question. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such officer shall remain in office. If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such officer shall be considered as removed, that office shall be deemed vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled as provided in this Charter. The officer removed by such recall election shall not be eligible for appointment to the vacancy created thereby.
Not more than three persons holding an office to which they have been elected pursuant to this Charter may be removed at any recall election. Successive recall elections shall not be held more frequently than once every 90 days.
(Amended 11-3-98)