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-7- the proposed legislation in the form of an ordinance, including a descriptive caption. Referendum petition papers shall contain a sufficient description of the ordinance sought to be referred to identify it, or if the ordinance has been passed by the council, the full text of the ordinance sought to be referred shall be included in such papers. The signatures to the initiative or referendum petitions need not be all appended to one paper, but each signer shall sign his or her name in ink or indelible pencil, together with a notation showing residence address and voter registration number. No signature shall be counted where there is reason to believe it is not the actual signature of the purported signer or that it is a duplication either of name or of handwriting used in any other signature on the petition, and .wiïitiiMi.JiiiMJ!__!: iD Dhown, or unloaD it iD Digneà exactly aD the name of the y,¡eter appearD OR the official copy of the current liat of exe~t y;otcrD. Before signatures on any petition paper may be counted one of the signers of such petition paper, a qualified voter, shall make oath before the city secretary or any other officer competent to administer oaths, that the statements made therein are true, that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name purports to be signed thereto, and that such signatures were placed thereon in that person's presence. The type of information required on petitions was established on a state-wide basis by recent revisions to the Election Code. These changes would replace inconsistent language in the Charter with a reference to state law. 9. Delete Sections 6.07. 6.08. 6.09 and 6.10. The deletion of these sections, dealing with the recall of council members, is suggested on the following bases: a. The terms of the council members, two years for the mayor and three years for the remaining council members, are brief enough to allow voters to pass judgment on council members in regular elections against opponents rather than in special, potentially expensive, recall elections. b. The Council itself has limited authority to remove its members from office for certain causes, such as failure to attend meetings. 10. Amend Section 7.04 as follows: