The electors shall have the power to remove from office by a recall election any elected officer of the municipality.
If any elected officer shall have served for six months of his or her term, a petition demanding his or her 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. 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 two hundred words of the grounds for removal. Such petition shall be signed by not less than twenty-five percent of the qualified electors. Within ten days after the day on which such petition is 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, he or she shall certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of his or her certificate to the person who filed the petition with him or her within five days, and make a record of such delivery. A period of twenty days after delivery of such certificate shall be allowed to make the petition sufficient.
If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition sufficient, he or she shall so certify to the Council at their next regular meeting, 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 days after the day on which such delivery shall have been made, the Council shall thereupon order and fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty nor more than seventy-five days after the date of such delivery, at the same time as any other general or special election held within such period; but if no such election be held within such period, the Council shall call a special recall election to be held within the time aforesaid.
At such recall election this question shall be placed on the ballot: "Shall (naming the officer) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?" with provision on the ballot for voting affirmatively or negatively on such question. If the majority of the votes cast at such election shall be voted affirmatively, such officer shall remain in office and he or she shall not again be subject to recall for a period of one year for the same issue. If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such officer shall be considered as removed, his or her office shall be deemed 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 thereby created.
Within twenty days after receipt of the certificate demanding recall action, the accused may in defense submit to the Clerk of Council a letter containing not more than two hundred words answering to the charges brought forth requesting recall. This answer shall be printed and mailed at City expense to each registered voter within the municipality not later than ten days before the day set for recall election.
In the event the officer being recalled resigns his or her office prior to the date set for a special recall election, Council may take action to cancel such special recall election.