§ 100.03. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PROCEDURES.

(a) Petitioners' Committee. Any five registered voters may commence initiative and referendum proceedings by filing with the City Clerk an affidavit stating they will constitute the petitioners' committee; they will be responsible for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and addresses and specifying a chairman, and the address to which all notices to the committee are to be sent; and set out in full the proposed initiative ordinance or citing the ordinance sought to be reconsidered. Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioners' committee is filed, the Clerk may, at the committee's request issue the appropriate petition blanks to the petitioners' committee at the committee's expense.

(b) Number of Signatures. Initiative or referendum petitions must be signed by qualified voters of the City equal in number to at least ten (10) percent of the total number of qualified registered voters within the City.

(c) Form and Content. All papers of a petition shall be uniform in size and style and shall be assembled as one instrument for filing. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by the address of the person signing, the date, and their voting precinct. Petitions shall contain or have attached thereto throughout their circulation the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered.

(d) Affidavit of Circulator. Each paper of a petition shall have attached to it when filed an affidavit executed by the circulator thereof stating that he or she personally circulated the paper, the number of signatures thereon, that all the signatures were affixed in his or her presence, that he or she believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be, and that each signer had an opportunity before signing to read the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered.

(e) Time for Filing Referendum Petitions. Referendum petitions must be filed within thirty (30) days after adoption by the Council of the ordinance sought to be reconsidered.

(Ord. 956-06, passed 5-8-06, addition adopted by electorate 4-11-06)