The electors shall have the power to remove from office by a recall election any elected official of the City serving a four (4) year term. If the elected official shall have served for six (6) months of the official’s term, a petition demanding the removal of the elected official maybe filed with the Clerk of the 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 (200) words of the grounds for the removal. The statement must allege inefficiency, neglect of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, incapacity or incompetency. Such petition shall be signed by at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors eligible to vote for the official, who is the subject of the recall, as of the date of the election of the official. Within ten (10) days after the day on which such petition shall have been filed, the Clerk shall determine whether or not it meets the requirements hereof. If the Clerk shall find the petition insufficient, the Clerk shall promptly certify the particulars in which the petition is defective, deliver a copy of the certificate to the person who filed the petition with the Clerk, and make a record of such delivery. Such person shall be allowed a period of twenty (20) days after the day on which such delivery was made in which to make the petition sufficient. If the Clerk shall find the petition sufficient, the Clerk shall promptly so certify to the Council, shall deliver a copy of such certificate to the official whose removal is sought, and shall make a record of such delivery. If such official shall not resign within five (5) days after the day on which such delivery was made, the Council shall thereupon fix a day for holding a recall election, not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy-five (75) days after the date of such delivery. At such recall election this question shall be placed on the ballot: "Shall (naming the official) be allowed to continue as (naming the office)?" If a majority of the votes cast shall be voted negatively, such official shall be considered removed from office. The office shall be deemed vacant and such vacancy shall be filled as provided in this Charter, otherwise, the official shall remain in office. The official removed by such recall election shall not be eligible for appointment to any vacancy created thereby.
(Amended November 7, 2006.)