The electors shall have the power to remove from office by a recall election any elected official of the Municipality. If such person shall have served six (6) months of his term, a petition demanding his removal may be submitted to the Clerk of Council, who shall note thereon the name and address of the person submitting the petition and the date of such submission, and deliver to such person a receipt thereof, and attach a copy thereof to said petition. A petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and submitted as one instrument. Each part shall contain the name and office of the person whose removal is sought and a statement of not more than two hundred (200) words on the grounds for the removal. Such petition shall be signed by at least that number of electors which equals twenty percent (20%) of the total number of electors voting at the last general election.
Within ten (10) days after the day on which such petition shall have been submitted, the Clerk of Council shall determine, using the same methods as outlined in the section on Referendum, whether or not the petition meets the requirements thereof. If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition insufficient, he shall promptly certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of his certificate to the person who submitted the petition and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after such delivery in which to make the petition sufficient and return same to the Clerk of Council for certification of sufficiency.
If the Clerk of Council shall find the petition sufficient, he shall promptly so certify to Council, shall deliver a copy of such petition and certification to the officer whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery. If such officer shall not resign within five (5) days after the day on which such delivery shall have been made, Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty (60) days nor more than ninety (90) after the date of such delivery. At such recall election this question shall be placed upon the ballot: "Shall (naming the officer) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?" with provision being made on the ballot for voting 'yes' or 'no' on such question. If a majority of votes cast shall be voted negatively ('no'), as certified to by the Lucas County Board of Elections, such officer shall be considered as removed, his office shall be declared 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 created thereby.