§ 99. Form of petitions; committee of petitioners.  


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  • Initiative petition papers shall contain the full text of the proposed ordinance. The signatures to initiative or referendum petitions need not all be appended to one paper; but to each separate petition there shall be attached a statement of the circulator thereof as provided by this section. Each signer of any petition paper shall sign his/her name in ink or indelible pencil and there shall be included such other information as required by state law. There shall appear on each petition the names and addresses of five electors, who, as a committee of the petitioners, shall be regarded as responsible for the circulation and filing of the petition. Attached to each separate petition paper there shall be an affidavit of the circulator thereof that he/she, and he/she only, personally circulated and witnessed the signatures on the foregoing paper, that it bears a stated number of signatures, that all signatures appended thereto were made in his/her presence, and that he/she believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be.

(Ord. No. 12,110, § 19, 11-19-12)