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(e) Individual signatures may be withdrawn within fifteen days after the filing of an initiative or referendum petition with the clerk of the council by the filing of a written request therefor, by the individual, with the clerk of the council." SECTION 3. Article XI, Initiative and Referendum, section 11 -5, Hawaii County Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: "Section 11 -5. Initiative and Referendum: Procedure after Filing. (a) Within twenty working days after the filing of an initiative or referendum petition, the clerk of the council shall complete a certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition. As soon as a certificate is completed, the clerk shall notify the petitioners' committee of the contents of the certificate. If a petition is certified sufficient, the clerk shall present [his] the certificate to the county council at its next meeting. If the clerk certifies a petition insufficient, the certificate shall show the particulars wherein the petition is defective. A majority of the petitioners' committee may elect to amend a petition certified insufficient and must so notify the clerk, but if a majority does not elect to amend a petition, the clerk shall present the certificate to the county council at its next meeting. A petition is approved for consideration through council action upon the clerk's certificate of sufficiency. (b) If a majority of the petitioners' committee elects to amend its petition, then within ten days after receipt of the clerk's certificate, the committee shall file a supplementary petition upon additional papers. The supplementary petition shall be governed by the same requirements as for an original petition. Within five working days after the filing of a supplemental petition, the clerk shall complete a second certificate as to the sufficiency of the original petition as amended by the supplementary petition. Thereafter, the procedural requirements for the petition as amended shall be the same as that for the original petition as provided in subsection (a), this section. (c) A majority of the petitioners' committee may request the county council to review the clerk's certificate, at or before the meeting at which the clerk presents the certificate to the council. The council shall review the latest clerk's certificate, upon the committee's request, and shall approve or reject the certificate or may substitute its own determination of sufficiency of the petition by resolution. The review actions of the council shall be final but shall not preclude the filing of a new petition for the same purposes." SECTION 4. Article XII, Removal of Elected Officers, chapter 1, Recall, section 12 -1.3, Hawaii County Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: "Section 12 -1.3. Signatures. Signers of a recall petition shall print their names and their signature, their residence [or rnailin ] address, [theiF seeial ..,,,..._ity number] and the date of signing on said petition. To each such petition paper there shall be attached an affidavit of the circulator thereof, stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper was made in the circulator's presence and is believed to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that each signer understood the nature of the recall petition."