01-09-09: EXAMINATION, REMOVAL AND CERTIFICATION OF SIGNATURES:

   (1)   The county Clerk shall, within sixty (60) calendar days of the deadline for the submission of the signatures, verify the signatures contained in the petition.

   (2)   The signer of any initiative or referendum petition may remove his or her own name from the petition by crossing out, obliterating or otherwise defacing his or her own signature at any time prior to the time the petition is presented to the county Clerk for signature verification.

   (3)   The signer of any initiative or referendum petition may have his or her name removed from the petition at any time after presentation of the petition to the county Clerk but prior to verification of the signature, by presenting or submitting to the county Clerk a signed statement that the signer desires to have his or her name removed from the petition. The statement shall contain sufficient information to clearly identify the signer. The county Clerk shall immediately strike the signer's name from the petition and adjust the total of certified signatures on the petition accordingly. The statement shall become attached to, and become a part of the initiative or referendum petition.

   (4)   Any person who circulates any petition for an initiative or referendum shall be a qualified elector of Canyon County, Idaho. Each and every sheet of every such petition containing signatures shall be verified on the face thereof in substantially the form prescribed by subsection 01-09-07(4) of this Article.

In addition to said affidavit, the county Clerk shall carefully examine said petitions and shall attach to the signature sheets a certificate.

   State of Idaho

(Seal of office)

The forms herein given are not mandatory and if substantially followed in any petition, it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical error.

Any petition upon which signatures are obtained by a person not a qualified elector of Canyon County, Idaho, shall be void. (Ord. 98-005, 4-28-1998)