§ 2. Petition; Requirement; Duties.

(a)

A petition demanding that the question of removing the mayor be submitted to the registered voters shall be signed by eligible electors equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the total registered voters at the time of the last general election.

(b)

The signatures shall be affixed to petition papers which shall be considered part of the petition filed under this section. The petition papers shall be procured from the city clerk, who shall keep a sufficient number of such blank petition papers on file for distribution. Prior to the issuance of such petition papers, an affidavit shall be signed and filed with the city clerk by at least one registered voter. Such voter or voters shall be deemed to be the principal circulator or circulators of the recall petition. The affidavit shall state the name of the mayor sought to be removed and shall request that the city clerk issue petition papers to the circulator for circulation. The city clerk, upon issuing any petition papers, shall enter in a record, to be kept in his or her office, the name of the registered voter or voters to whom issued, the date of such issuance, and the number of papers issued and shall certify on the papers the name of the registered voter or voters to whom the papers were issued and the date they were issued. No petition paper shall be accepted as part of the petition unless it bears such certificate and unless it is filed as provided in this section.

(c)

Each petition paper presented to an eligible elector for his or her signature shall indicate clearly at the top that the signatories support the holding of a recall election and shall indicate the name of the mayor sought to be recalled.

(d)

Each signer of a recall petition shall sign and print his or her given name and surname and list his place of residence by street and number or by mailing address. To each petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator stating the number of signers to such part of the petition, that each signature appended to the paper was made in his or her presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that the circulator has not received and will not receive, either directly or indirectly, any compensation for circulating the petition or for procuring the signatures on it.

(e)

No person shall be presented with a petition or asked to sign a petition by a circulator thereof within three hundred feet of any outside door of any building affording access to any room where the polls are held or of any outside door of any building affording access to any hallway, corridor, stairway or other means of reaching the room where the polls are held on any election day, except this section shall not apply to the posting of signs on private property not a polling place. The effect of such an act will be to invalidate the entire petition.