Any ordinance which may be legally adopted by the Council of the City of Southgate may be proposed by a petition signed by registered electors of the City, not less in number than fifteen percentum of all votes cast for Mayor at the last preceding election at which a Mayor of the City was elected, but in no case less than three hundred. Such petition shall be addressed to the Council of the City of Southgate, and shall set forth at length the ordinance proposed to be enacted. With each signature attached thereto shall be given the place of residence with the street and number of the elector so signing, and the date when such signature was attached. Such signatures need not all be on one paper, but all petitions shall be filed with the City Clerk at one and the same time. An affidavit or affidavits shall be made by one or more registered electors of the City, which affidavits shall state that each signature appearing upon the petition to which such affidavit is attached is a genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, the signers whose names are attached to said petition are registered electors of the City of Southgate. The petition proposing an ordinance shall be in the following form:
To the Honorable Council of the City of Southgate, Michigan:
We the undersigned registered electors of the City of Southgate, under and by virtue of the authority granted by Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909 as amended, and by the Charter of the City of Southgate, do hereby propose and initiate for submission to the qualified electors of the City of Southgate, the following proposed ordinance:
(Here set forth proposed ordinance in full)
and your petitioners will ever pray
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Name Number-Street Date of Signing
Name Number-Street Date of Signing
AFFIDAVIT
State of Michigan
County of Wayne--ss.
........................, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that the names appearing upon the foregoing petition are the genuine signatures of the persons whose names appear thereon, and that to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, such persons are registered electors of the City of Southgate:
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ....... day of .............., 19.....
Said petitions, when signed by the requisite number of registered electors, shall be filed with the City Clerk. Such Clerk shall attach thereto a certificate, setting forth the name and address of the person or persons filing the said petition in his office, and the date when said petition was filed. A copy of said petition, exclusive of signatures, together with said certificate, shall be entered in a record book to be kept for that purpose in the office of the City Clerk.