THE RECALL
Any or all members of the City Commission may be removed from office by the electors by the following procedure:
A petition for the recall of the City Commissioner or City Commissioners designated, signed by at least 10% of the total number of persons voting at the last preceding municipal election, and containing a statement of not more than 200 words of the grounds of the recall, shall be filed with the Finance Director and he or she shall examine the same and ascertain and certify thereon whether the signatures thereto amount to at least 10% of the number of persons voting at the last preceding municipal election and he or she shall forthwith notify the City Commissioner or City Commissioners sought to be removed, and he or they within 5 days after such notice, may file with such Finance Director a defensive statement in not exceeding 200 words. The Finance Director shall at once upon the expiration of said 5 days cause sufficient printed or typewritten copies of such petition, without the signatures, to be made, and to each of them he or she shall attach a printed or typewritten copy of such defensive statement, if one is furnished him or her within the time provided. He or she shall cause one copy of such petition to be placed on file in his or her office, and provide facilities for their signing the same, and he or she shall also cause one copy to be placed in each of the several fire engine houses of the City, where the same shall be in the custody of the captain of the house, or his or her designee, who shall provide facilities for their signing the same. The Finance Director shall immediately cause notice to be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the City of the placing of such copies of such petition.
Such copies of such petition shall remain on file in the several places designated for the period of 30 days, during which time any of them may be signed by any elector of the City in person; but not by agent or attorney. Each signer of any of such copies shall sign his or her name in ink, and shall place thereafter his or her residence by street and number. (Amended 11-7-89)