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<br /> __ __ ____n_ <br /> .- <br />Section 2.5 - Election Commission: <br />REPEALED - November 6, 2001 <br />Section 2.6 - Disclosure: <br />REPEALED - November 6, 2001 <br />Section 2.7 - Recall: <br />(a) Any incumbent of an e 1 ecti ve offi ce may be removed <br />from office ~ the qualified electors of the City after he has <br />hel d offi ce or si x months. The procedure hereunder to effect <br />the recall of an elective officer shall be as follows: <br />(b) A petition signed by electors entitled to vote for a <br />successor of the incumbent sought to be recalled equal in number <br />to twenty-fi ve per centum of the enti re vote cast at the 1 ast <br />preceding election for all candidates for the position which the <br />incumbent sought to be recalled occdPies, demanding an election <br />of the successor to the officer name in such ~etition, shall be <br />fi 1 ed in the offi ce in whi ch the peti ti ons or nomi nati ons to <br />office held by the incumbent sought to be recalled are required <br />to be filed provided, if more than one person is required b~ law <br />to be elected to fill the office of which the person soug t to <br />be recalled is an incumbent, then the said peti ti on shall be <br />signed by electors entitled to vote for a successor to the in- <br />cumbent sought to be recalled equal in number to twenty-five per <br />centum of the enti re vote cast at the 1 ast precedi n~ general <br />election for all candidates for the office, to which t e incum- <br />bent sought to be recall ed was elected as one of the offi ce rs <br />thereof, said entire vote being divided by the number of all of- <br />fi cers el ected to such offi ce, at the 1 ast precedi ng general <br />el ecti on; and such peti ti on shall contai n a general statement, <br />in not more than two hundred words, of the ground or grounds on <br />which such recall is sought, which statement is intended for the <br />information of the electors, and the electors shall be the sole <br />and exclusive judges of the legality, reasonableness and suffi- <br />ciency of such ground or grounds assigned for such recall, and <br />said ground or grounds shall not be open to review. <br />(c) Council shall call an election not less than 30 nor <br />more than 45 days from the date of fili~ such petition with the <br />ci t1 cl erk. The ci ty cl erk shall noti y the person bei ng re- <br />cal ed by Certified Mail. Council may provide, by ordinance, for <br />further recall procedures. <br /> ARTICLE III <br />THE CITY COUNCIL <br />Section 3.1 - The City council: shall be vested in <br />The le~islative affairs of the City a <br />City counci , which shall consist of nine members, one of whom <br />