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employee of the city and to require the submission of any of the city records which it may deem necessary to the conduct of such hearing. (2) Propose any recommendations it may deem desirable to ensure compliance with the provisions of the charter by the several departments of the city government. (3) Propose, if it deems desirable, amendments to this Charter to improve the effective application of said charter to current conditions. (4) Report its finding and present its proposed amendments, if any, to the city council. (b) The city council may take action to amend the charter in the manner provided by state law. (c) Term of office: The term of office of such charter review commission shall be six ~ months, and, if during such term no report is presented to the city council, then all records of the proceedings of such commission shall be filed with the person performing the duties of the city clerk and shall become a public record. SECTION 2. Section 5.02 of the City Charter is amended as follows (underlining indicates added text; overstrike indicates deleted text): Sec. 5.02. Regulation of elections. All elections shall be held in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas regulating the holding of municipal elections and in accordance with the ordinances adopted by the city council for the conduct of elections. Provided that tIhe city council. shall appoint the election judges and other election officials. Voting precincts shall be established by ordinance and may be altered from time to time in like manner. SECTION 3. Section 6.03 of the City Charter is amended as follows (underlining indicates added text) : Sec. 6.03. Forms of petitions. Initiative petition papers shall contain the full text of 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 no signature shall be counted unless it is accompanied by all of the information required by applicable state law. Before signatures on any petition paper may be counted, one of the signers of such petition paper, a qualified voter, shall make oath or affirmation before the city clerk or any other officer competent to administer oaths or affirmations, that the statements made therein are true, that each signature to the paper appended is -7-