The electors may remove from office by a recall election any elected officer of the Municipality. If an elected officer shall have served six months or more in office, a petition demanding removal may be filed with the Clerk of Council, who shall note thereon the name and address of the person filing the petition and the date of such filing, and shall deliver to said person a receipt therefor and attach a copy thereof to said petition. 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 200 words of the grounds for removal. Except as otherwise provided herein, such petition shall be signed by at least fifty percent (50%) of the number of electors voting at the preceding November election; provided, however, that in the case of a council person elected from a voting district, such signatures must be obtained from the voting district electing such council person and shall be signed by at least fifty percent (50%) of the number of electors voting in said council person’s voting district in the preceding November election.
Within ten (10) days after the day on which such petition shall have been filed, the Clerk of Council shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof. If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk of Council shall promptly certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, shall deliver a certified copy to the person who filed the petition, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after the day on which such delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient.
If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk of Council 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 (5) 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 (60) days, nor more than seventy-five (75) days after the date of such delivery. At such recall election this question shall be placed upon the ballot: “Shall (naming the officer) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?” with provision being made 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 and said office shall be declared 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.