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Section 11-5. Initiative and Referendum Petitions: Forms and Sufficiency. (a) Initiative and referendum petitions shall be governed by the rules regarding form and sufficiency set forth in this section, as well as by such other rules as the county council may impose by ordinance, consistent with the provisions and with the spirit and purpose of the charter. (b) For acceptance of petitions, the clerk shall require that: (1) The petitions indicate the five members of the committee for that petition by name and residence address as they appear on the general county register for the County of Hawaii. (2) The petitions indicate the designated representative for the committee and the address to which all notices for the committee are to be sent. (3) The signatures to petitions be filed on papers of uniform size and style and assembled as one instrument. (4) Each elector signing such petitions shall print their name, add their signature, residence or mailing address, month and day of their birth date, and the month, day, and year of signing on said petition. The information provided by the signer of the petition shall be deemed acceptable if the clerk judges three of the four following qualifiers to be reasonably similar to the information on the general register of the County of Hawaii: name, signature, residence or mailing address, and the month and day of their birth date. (5) The petition contain a prominent notice stating whether one or more petition circulators are to be paid. Paid means monetary payment or payment of goods or services. Pay for petition circulators shall not be based on the number of signatures collected. (6) The petition contain the ballot title and the ballot question. (7) Each page of the completed petition form shall be numbered consecutively. (c) For purposes of certification, any petition shall be found insufficient that: (1) Is signed by less than ten percent of the voters who voted in the last Mayoral election. (2) Proposes, or requests appeal of, an ordinance not subject to the powers of initiative or referendum. (d) Signatures are invalid and petitions insufficient: (1) If signers are not given an opportunity to read the full text of the proposed ordinance under an initiative petition, or the designation and description of the ordinance in question under a referendum petition, and if the full text of a proposed ordinance or ordinance under question is not contained in or attached to each signature paper or set of signature papers of an initiative or referendum petition, respectively, throughout circulation. 5