CHAPTER XXI.
RECALL

Sec. 1. Officers subject to recall.

Every public officer holding an elective office, either by election or appointment, is subject to recall.

   Cross References: Elective officers specified, ch. V, § 1.

Sec. 2. Procedure for initiating recall; petitions required.

Any qualified elector of the city may make and file with the clerk an affidavit, containing the name of the officer to be removed, and a general statement, not to exceed two hundred (200) words, stating the grounds of removal. The clerk shall thereupon deliver, to the elector making such affidavit, a sufficient number of copies of petitions for such recall and removal, printed forms of which he shall keep on hand. Such petitions shall be issued by the clerk, with his signature and official seal thereto attached; they shall be dated and addressed to the mayor and council, shall contain the name of the person to whom issued, the number of forms so issued, the name of the person sought to be removed, the office from which such removal is sought, the grounds of such removal, as stated in said affidavit, a copy of which petition shall be entered in a record book, to be kept for that purpose, in the office of the clerk. Any defect in said form or record shall not invalidate the petition.

Sec. 3. Form, number of signatures on petitions; oath; filing, endorsement of petitions.

Said petitions, before being returned and filed, shall be signed by qualified electors equal to twenty-five (25) percent of the number of votes cast, at the last preceding general election, for all of the candidates for the office held by such officer sought to be removed, and to each signature shall be attached his or her place of residence, giving street and ward number and date of signature. Such signatures need not all be on one (1) paper.

One (1) of the signers of each sheet of such petition, or the person circulating such sheet, must make and subscribe an oath on said sheet, that the signatures thereon are genuine.

All such papers for the recall of any one (1) officer shall be fastened together, and filed as one (1) instrument, with the endorsement thereon of the names and addresses of three (3) persons designated as filing the same.

Sec. 4. Adding or removing signatures prohibited after petition filed.

Whenever a recall petition has been filed with the clerk, and while said petition remains in his possession, or has been certified and submitted by him to the mayor and council, no signatures shall be added thereto or taken therefrom.