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Charter Amendments City of Piqua

Issue Information:

Eleven Charter Amendendments to Tipp City Charter:

Section 14: POWER TO INITIATE ORDINANCES
Shall Charter Section 14 be amended to eliminate the requirement that 10% of the electorate sign an initiative petition and instead require 500 signatures before a petition can be submitted to the City Clerk?

Section 16: SUBMISSION OF INITIATED ORDINANCE TO ELECTORS
Shall Charter Section 16 be amended to clarify that an initiative petition may be submitted within ten business days of final action taken by the City Commission?

Section 21: REFERENDUM PETITION
Shall Charter Section 21 be amended to eliminate the requirement that 10% of the electorate sign a referendum petition and instead require 750 signatures before a petition can be submitted to the City Clerk?

Section 25: REFERENDUM ON EMERGENCY ORDINANCES
Shall Charter Section 25 be amended to specify that the City Clerk’s certification of a referendum petition include the Board of Elections having verified the signatures?

Section 27: SIGNATURE TO INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL PETITIONS
Shall Charter Section 27 be amended to specify that a failure to list the registered voter’s address will disqualify a signature on a petition, that the Board of Elections shall verify the petition signatures and that the Committee circulating the petition shall be no less than five nor greater than ten registered voters from the City of Piqua?

Section 28: FILING, EXAMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL PETITIONS
Shall Charter Section 28 be amended to require the City Clerk to submit and the Board of Elections to verify the petition signatures and to clarify that the validity or the positions must be determined within ten business days?

Section 29: AMENDMENT OF INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL PETITIONS
Shall Charter Section 29 be amended to clarify that a petition may be amended within ten days after receiving notice of its insufficiency?

Section 121: FILING RECALL PETITION
Shall Charter Section 121 be amended to require a recall petition to include 1,000 signatures from registered voters rather than 15% of the voters who voted in the last municipal election?

Section 122: RECALL ELECTION ORDERED
Shall Charter Section 122 be amended to require that the Clerk’s certification of a recall petition require that the Board of Elections has certified the signatures?

Section 127: LIMITS ON RECALL PETITIONS
Shall Charter Section 127 be amended to restrict a recall petition being filed against a commissioner until one year after he takes office or one year after a recall where the commissioner was not removed after the election?

Section 135: AMENDMENTS
Shall Charter Section 135 be amended to require a petition for a charter amendment to include 1,250 signatures from registered voters rather than 10% of the electors?