Item C: City of Eugene Elections Code Revision

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(b) If the city attorney determines that the prospective petition is legally sufficient, the city attorney shall prepare a ballot title and deliver it to the city recorder. The city recorder shall provide a copy of the ballot title to the chief petitioners. (2) Within five business days following the council's decision to submit legislation to the electors under subsection [(3) of section] 2.971(3) of this code, the city attorney shall prepare a ballot title and deliver it to the city recorder. (3) The ballot title of any measure to be initiated or referred shall comply with the state statutes in effect at the time the ballot title is prepared. The ballot title shall not resemble, to the extent it creates confusion, any ballot title previously [filed] prepared for a measure to be submitted to the electors at [that] the same election. (4) Upon receiving a ballot title for a city measure from the city attorney, the city recorder shall publish in the next available edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the city a notice of receipt of the ballot title including notice that an elector may file a petition for review of the ballot title not later than the date referred to in subsection (5) of this section. ([4]) 5 An elector dissatisfied with the ballot title may, within [five] seven business days after it is delivered to the city recorder, [deposit at the office of the city recorder a written appeal to the council requesting a different ballot title for the measure and stating why the title prepared by the city attorney is unsatisfactory. Within ten business days after the ballot title is delivered to the city recorder, the council shall afford the appellant a hearing and either approve the ballot title or prescribe another ballot title for the measure] petition the Lane County Circuit Court seeking a different ballot title and stating the reasons that the title prepared by the city attorney is insufficient, not concise or unfair. The petition shall name the city attorney as respondent. The court shall review the ballot title and measure to be initiated or referred, hear arguments, if any, and certify to the city recorder a ballot title for the measure which meets the requirements of state statutes in effect at the time the ballot title is prepared. [The title thus adopted shall be the ballot title for the measure.] 2.979 Elections - Initiative and Referendum, Verification of Signatures , . Completed Petition (1) A[n] completed initiative or referendum petition shall be [filed with] submitted to the city recorder for signature verification. The city recorder may not accept for signature verification any petition sheets that do not comply with the requirements contained in state statute and this code for signature sheets. Within 15 days of [such filing] submission of a completed initiative or referendum petition for signature verification, the city recorder or the recorder's designee shall, by reference to the records in the Lane County Elections office, Ordinance – Page Page 11 of 23 07 Election Code Amendments (00186837-10) 2/4/2008