When a petition is filed, a receipt is immediately issued by the city clerk containing:
(a) Part I- The petitioners' estimate of purported number of sheets and signatures filed.
(b) Part II- The city clerk's estimate of purported number of sheets and signatures filed.
(1) If the signature sheets appear to contain a number of signatures equal to or exceeding the minimum number required, the city clerk shall commence a verification process, examining the petition to determine if it contains the requisite number of signatures of qualified electors as prescribed by Chapter XIX of the Tucson City Charter and this chapter of the Tucson Code in order to proceed with certification.
(2) If the number of estimated signatures does not appear to equal or exceed the minimum number required, the city clerk shall reject the initiative petition and immediately return it to the petitioners, without prejudice to the filing of a new petition for the same purpose. The city clerk shall indicate the reason for the rejection on the receipt.
After the city clerk issues the receipt, no additional petition sheets may be accepted for filing, and no additions, corrections, or adjustments to the filed petition sheets are permitted.
(Ord. No. 11525, § 2, 2-21-18)