Section 2.09. Treatment and sufficiency of election petitions.

 

(1)  Except as expressly provided herein, the standards established in s. EL 2.05 for determining the treatment and sufficiency of nomination papers are incorporated by reference into, and are made a part of, this section.

(2)  In order to be timely filed, all petitions required to comply with s. 8.40 , Stats., and required by statute or other law to be filed by a time certain, shall be in the physical possession of the filing officer not later than the time set by that statute or other law.

(3)  All petitions shall contain at least the number of signatures, from the election district in which the petition was circulated, equal to the minimum required by the statute or other law establishing the right to petition.

(4)  Only one signature per person for the same petition, is valid.

(5)  This section applies to all petitions which are required to comply with s. 8.40 , Stats., including recall petitions, and to any other petition whose filing would require a governing body to call a referendum election.

History: Cr. Register, January, 1994, No. 457 , eff. 2-1-94; correction in (1) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7. , Stats., Register June 2016 No. 726 .