(A) Within 20 days after the petition is filed, the City Clerk shall complete a certificate as to its sufficiency, specifying if it is insufficient, the particulars wherein it is defective and shall promptly send a copy of the certificate to the petitioners' committee by certified mail. A petition certified insufficient for lack of the required number of valid signatures may be amended once if the petitioners' committee files a notice of intention to amend the petition with the City Clerk within two (2) days after receiving the copy of the City Clerk's certificate, excluding weekends and holidays. The amended petition must be filed within ten (10) days after receiving the copy of the certificate. The amended petition shall comply with the requirements of subsection (B) and (C) of Section 3. Within five (5) days after it is filed, excluding weekends and holidays, the City Clerk shall complete a certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition, as amended, and promptly send a copy of such certificate to the petitioners' committee by certified mail. If a petition or amended petition is certified sufficient, or if a petition or amended petition is certified insufficient and the petitioners' committee does not elect to amend or request Commission review under subsection (B) of this Section within the time required, the City Clerk shall then be a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.
(B) If a petition has been certified insufficient and the petitioners' committee does not file notice of intention to amend it or if an amended petition has been certified insufficient, the committee, within two (2) days after receiving the copy of such certificate, excluding weekends and holidays, may file a request that it be reviewed by the Commission. The Commission shall review the certificate at its next meeting following the filing of such request and approve or disapprove it, and the Commission's determination shall then be a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.
(C) A final determination as to the sufficiency of a petition shall be subject to review by a Court of competent jurisdiction. A final determination of insufficiency, even if sustained upon court review, shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.
(Charter effective 1-1-77)