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of the petition shall be deemed acceptable if the clerk judges three of the four <br /> following qualifiers to be reasonably similar to the information on the general <br /> register of the County of Hawaii: name, signature, residence or mailing address, <br /> and the month and day of their birth date. <br /> (5) The petition contain a prominent notice stating whether one or more petition <br /> circulators are to be paid. Paid means monetary payment or payment of goods or <br /> services. Pay for petition circulators shall not be based on the number of <br /> signatures collected. <br /> (6) The petition contain the ballot title and the ballot question. <br /> (7) Each page of the completed petition form shall be numbered consecutively. <br /> <br /> (c) For purposes of certification, any petition shall be found insufficient that: <br /> (1) Is signed by less than ten percent of the voters who voted in the last Mayoral <br /> election. <br /> (2) Proposes, or requests appeal of, an ordinance not subject to the powers of <br /> initiative or referendum. <br /> (d) Signatures aze invalid and petitions insufficient: <br /> (1) If signers are not given an opportunity to read the full text of the proposed <br /> ordinance under an initiative petition, or the designation and description of the <br /> ordinance in question under a referendum petition, and if the full text of a <br /> proposed ordinance or ordinance under question is not contained in or attached to <br /> each signature paper or set of signature papers of an initiative or referendum <br /> petition, respectively, throughout circulation. <br /> (2) If written statements (executed by the circulators for each set of signature papers) <br /> are not attached to the papers at the time of filing of a petition with the clerk. <br /> Each written statement shall attest that: a pazticulaz individual personally <br /> circulated an identifiable set of signed petitions; each signed petition bears a <br /> stated number of signatures; each signature on a petition was affixed in the <br /> petition circulator's presence; each signature is the genuine signature of the <br /> person whose name it purports to be; and the full text of the proposed measure <br /> was made available to petition signers. <br /> (e) Individuals may withdraw their signatures by submitting a written request to the clerk <br /> within fifteen days after the filing of an initiative or referendum petition. <br /> Section 11-6. Withdrawal of Petition. <br /> A petitioners' committee may withdraw a petition at any time, but not later than the <br /> thirtieth day immediately preceding the day scheduled for a vote in the county on a measure <br /> concerned. A petitioners' committee shall be requested to withdraw its petition and the <br /> committee must comply, if the aims of the petition are resolved by intermediate council action to <br /> the satisfaction of the committee such that the initiative proposal is adopted as an ordinance, or <br /> that the ordinance reconsidered by the referendum petition is repealed. A written request for <br /> petition withdrawal must be signed by four of the five members of the petitioners' committee <br /> and filed with the council clerk. The filing of a withdrawal immediately cancels the petition and <br /> ceases all further action for the accommodation of the petition by the county. <br /> 5 <br /> <br />