7.100.020 Application for petition.
A. An initiative or referendum is proposed by filing an application with the city clerk containing the ordinance or resolution to be initiated or the ordinance or resolution to be referred and the name and address of the contact person and an alternate to whom all correspondence relating to the petition may be sent. The application shall be on a form provided by the clerk. An application shall be signed by at least ten (10) voters who will sponsor the petition. An additional sponsor may be added at any time before the petition is filed by submitting the name of the sponsor to the clerk. Within two (2) weeks the clerk shall certify the application if the clerk finds that it is in proper form and, for an initiative petition, that the matter:
2. Includes only a single subject;
3. Relates to legislative rather than to an administrative matter; and
4. Would be enforceable as a matter of law.
B. Upon receipt of a completed application for a petition the municipal clerk shall immediately remit a copy of the application to the municipal attorney for review. The city clerk shall verify the sponsors’ qualifications and, after consultation with the city attorney, determine and certify the legal sufficiency, or lack thereof, of the application and the proposed initiative or referendum.
C. A decision by the clerk on an application for petition is subject to judicial review. [Ord. 11-13 § 2.]