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(a) Number of Signatures. Initiative petitions or referendum petitions must be signed by registered electors of the Town equal in number to at least five percent (5%) of the total number of registered electors in Town as of the date the affidavit referred to in Section 6-3 is filed.

(b) Form and Content. All pages of a petition shall be uniform in size and style and shall be assembled as one (1) instrument for filing. The form of the petition shall comply with State statutes. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by the address of the person signing. Petitions shall contain or have attached thereto throughout their circulation the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered.

(c) Reading of Ordinance. The Circulator shall require every person signing the petition to read it and the ordinance in question in full prior to signing.

(d) Affidavit of Circulator. Each page of a petition shall have attached to it, when filed, an affidavit of the Circulator stating that the Circulator personally circulated the petition, the number of signatures thereon, that all the signatures were affixed in the Circulator’s presence, that the Circulator believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be and that each signer read the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered prior to signing the petition.

(e) Time for Filing Referendum Petitions. A referendum petition complying with the requirements of this Article must be filed within thirty (30) days following publication of the notice provided for in Section 1-8(h) or it shall be of no effect.