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Introduced by Couicilot Soulae, September 26. 1917
CITY OF BANGOR
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By the city coaxM of We aty ofBaayor.
ORDERED*.
TEAT in accordance With 30 MESA 111911 at sag., as amended, the
City Council of the City of Hanger bereby orders the City Clerk to place o
a ballot at a Special Municipal Election to be held on December 5, 19]] the
following question:
"Shall the municipality approve the charter amendment reprinted below?"
THAT Article N of the Bangor. City Charter ie hereby emended with Me
following:
SEC. 9-A Recall'. My member of the City Council may be recalled and
removed therefrom by the voters of the City as herein provided:
(a)Procedure. Any fifteen (15) qualified voters Of the City may begin
the recall procedure by signing and filing with the City Clerk an affidavit
containing the na of the member o members of the City Council whose
removal is sought. Said affidavit shall also state the specific r why
or
the removal is desired, whenever requested by said fifteen (15) voters, the
City Clerk shall then prepare the proper recall petition forme with a copy of
the affidavit attached thereto, whereafter the Clerk shall, during office
hours for thirty (30) business days, keep the petition open for signature:
by registered voters of the City, and no such petition shall be signed or
presented for signature at any place other than the City Clerk's Office. At
the expiration of said thirty (30) business days, the City Clerk shall declare
the petition closed.
(b) Certification of recall petition. Within ten (10) days after the
closing Of the petition, the Clerk shall uncertain whether or not the petition
is sufficient. In Order to be sufficient, the petition most be signed by -a
number of voters of the City equal to at least ten percent (109) of the number
of registered voters as determined at the time of the last preceding municipal
election. Me Clerk shall attach to said petition a certificate showing the
sults of such examination. If the petition is found to be insufficient, the
Clerk shall take no further action and the petition will be considered to be
null and void.
(c) Calling of recall election. If the petition shall be certified by
its City Clerk tobesufficient, Me Clerk shall submit the same with the
Clarke certificate to the City Council at its next regular meeting aid shall
notify the member or members whose removal is sought by such action. The City
Council shall thereupon, within ten (10) days after the receipt of the City
Clerk's certificate, order a election to be held not less than forty (90)
nor e than sixty (60) days thereafter; provided that if a magular municipal
election is to occur within ninety (90) days after the receipt of said certi-
ficate.
the City Council any i its discretion provide for the holding ofa
shoval election on the date of Such municipal election. The removal election
all be called and held.
(dr Form of ballet in recall elections. Unless the member or members
whose removal is sought shall have signed within ten (10) days after the
receipt by the City Council of the City Clerk's certificate, the form of the
ballot at such election shall he as
nearly as may be: "Shall A be r eallel?
Shall B be recalled?" etc., the neve
of the memberr
cr members whose recall i
ought be inserted in place of A, H, etc.
(e) Majority vote required; chording of a e
In c majority
of those voting fee and against the recall of any official shall vote in favor
of recalling such official, he Or she shall thereby be removed, end in the event
the candidate to succeed him or her for the balance of the unexpired term shall
be determined as provided in Section 10.
(f) Form of ballot after resignation. If the person or persona sought
to be removed shall have resigned within ten (10) days after the receipt by
the City Council of the City Clerk's certificate referred to n this Sweden
stage, the form of the ballot at the election shall be the same, as nearly a
say be, as the form used in regular municipal elections and all other procedures
shall be the same.
mplanaticn: rota purposes of this amendment are
o provide for the r oval. from
office of a City Councilor and to establish the procedure for doing Be.
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