Petition Information
Basic Steps of a Petition
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- Petition Application:
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Provide a Primary sponsor and an Alternate petition sponsor. |
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Prepare petition language. |
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Collect signatures of 10 qualified municipal voters who agree to act as sponsors. |
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Submit petition application to the Municipal Clerk. |
- Petition Application Review:
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Municipal Attorney reviews petition language for legal sufficiency, or lack thereof. |
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Municipal Clerk verifies the sponsors are qualified municipal voters. |
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Petition Primary sponsor is notified if petition application is certified. |
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If petition application is not certified, Primary sponsor is notified and provided with the Municipal Attorney's memorandum. |
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Petition Circulation:
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Municipal Clerk prepares master form to be used to gather signatures. The Municipal Clerk shall not be responsible for reproducing copies of the master form. |
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Petition sponsors circulate petition. Petition signatures must be secured within 90 days from the date of first actual circulation. |
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Petition Primary sponsor submits petition signatures to Municipal Clerk. |
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Municipal Clerk verifies the signatures to determine if signers are qualified municipal voters. |
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Primary sponsor is notified if the petition meets the number of qualified municipal voters, or lack thereof. |
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If there are insufficient signatures to certify the petition, the sponsors will have 10 days from the date the Municipal Clerk mails the notification to the Primary sponsor to provide the Municipal Clerk with clear and convincing evidence that signatures not counted were in fact signatures of qualified voters. |
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