§ 3. Recall.

Any City Commissioner, including the Mayor, is subject to a recall election. Upon petition seeking a recall of a Commissioner, the Commission shall call a special election within sixty (60) days, unless the regular City election occurs within ninety (90) days.

Notice of Intent to circulate a petition for recall must be dated and filed with the City Clerk and shall include a statement of the reason for the recall. Each page of a recall petition, before any signatures are signed to it, must be endorsed by the manual or facsimile signature of the City Clerk and the date of filing of Notice of Intent; the City Clerk shall provide this without charge. The recall petition must be submitted to the City Clerk with the requisite number of signatures, within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the date of filing the Notice of Intent.

The petition shall be signed by no less than twenty (20) percent of the number of registered voters in that Commissioner's district at the time the Commissioner was elected. If the petition seeks to recall the Mayor, the petition shall be signed by no less than twenty (20) percent of the number of registered voters residing in the City at the time the Mayor was elected. The special recall election of a Commissioner shall be held only in that Commissioner's district. The special recall election of a Mayor shall be citywide.

If a majority favors recall and this majority equals or exceeds the number of votes the Commissioner or the Mayor received when elected, the office shall be declared vacated, and the office shall be filled as are other vacancies. A Commissioner or Mayor who is recalled shall not be eligible for re-election until the term for which the Commissioner was originally elected has expired.

If a recall election results in a failure to secure the votes necessary to recall, the Commissioner or Mayor who is the subject of the election shall not again be subject to recall until after six (6) months from the date of the recall election.

(Amd. of 3-18-97; Amd. of 3-6-12)