Sec. 7-189. Form of petition. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 7-189. Form of petition. (a) The form of the petition for adopting or amending a charter or amending a home rule ordinance shall be as follows: WARNING: ALL SIGNATURES SHALL BE IN INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL. We, the undersigned electors of the town, city or borough of (here insert name of town, city or borough), hereby present this petition under the provisions of section 7-188 requesting the appointment of a commission for (insert one of the following: "The adoption of a charter, the amendment of its charter, or the amendment of its home rule ordinance", using such words as are applicable) and we certify that we are electors of the town, city or borough of .... residing at the addresses set opposite our names and that we have signed this petition on the dates opposite our names and not more than once. (Here follow the signatures, dates and addresses.)

      (b) Each page of such petition shall contain a statement, signed under penalties of false statement as defined in section 53a-157b, by the person who circulates the same, setting forth such circulator's name and address, and which shall be in the form as follows: "Each person whose name appears on this page signed the same in person in my presence and such person is known to me or has satisfactorily identified himself to me." Any page of a petition which does not contain such a statement by the circulator shall be invalid.

      (c) Such petition may also include, immediately after the statement provided in subsection (a) of this section, a list of general or specific recommendations for consideration by such commission.

      (1957, P.A. 465, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 678, S. 3; February, 1965, P.A. 269, S. 2; P.A. 81-451, S. 3, 10; P.A. 85-253, S. 3, 10.)

      History: 1959 act added home rule ordinance provisions; 1965 act added provision for placing date of signing on petition; P.A. 81-451 added Subsec. (b) concerning the statement of the circulator and Subsec. (c) concerning recommendations for consideration by the commission and revised wording of petition form in Subsec. (a), effective October 1, 1982; P.A. 85-253 amended Subsec. (a) to refer to amendments of charters and home rule ordinances rather than to revisions.

      Cited. 188 C. 276. Cited. 193 C. 1. Cited. 196 C. 623. Cited. 234 C. 513.