§ 3. Petition; Filing; Signatures; Requirements.

(a)

All papers comprising a recall petition shall be filed for signature verification with the city clerk as one instrument within sixty days after the city clerk issues the initial petition papers to the principal circulator or to a person who provides written documentation, signed by the principal circulator, that he or she is the principal circulator's designee. The petition shall be filed with the city clerk by the principal circulator or circulators as defined in Section 2 above.

(b)

Within ten days after the filing of the petition, the city clerk shall ascertain whether or not the petition is signed by the requisite number of eligible electors and shall attach to the petition a certificate showing whether any signatures need to be corrected in order to comply with this article. If the city clerk finds incorrect signatures, he or she shall promptly notify the person filing the petition that the petition may be cured at any time within ten days after the giving of such notice by the filing of a supplementary petition, with the corrected signatures, on additional petition papers issued and filed as provided for the original petition. No new signatures may be added after the initial filing of the petition, and no signatures may be removed unless the city clerk receives an affidavit signed by the person requesting his or her signature be removed. The clerk shall, within five days after any correction, examine the corrected petition and attach a certificate as in the case of the original petition. If the certificate shows the corrected petition to be insufficient or if no correction was made, the city clerk shall file the petition in his or her office without prejudice to the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.