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rules 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 this charter. (a) The petition shall indicate by name and address three or five signers. who constitute the petitioners' committee for that petition, and the address to which all communications are to be sent. (b) The signatures to the petition shall be filed on papers of uniform size and style and assembled as one instrument. (c) Each signature paper or set of signature papers shall contain the full text of the ordinance, resolution, amendment , revision, recall , or .. other issue to be voted upon, and each signer shall be given the opportunity to read the full text . (d) Each signature paper or set of signature papers shall contain an affidavit signed by the circulator , to the effect that said person personally circulated the paper orset of papers, that each paper bears a stated number of signatures, that each signer seemed to fully understand the purpose of the petition , and that each signature was affixed in the circulator's presence and to the best of the circulator's knowledge is the. genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. (e) Each person who signs the petition shall be a duly qualified elector in the county or in the specified census tracts, and the information supplied shall include that person's printed name, signature, residence address, social security number and the date of signing. (f) Individual signatures may be withdrawn, if within fifteen days after the filing of the petition, the individual submits a written request therefor to the clerk of the council . (g) The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the council by the petitioners' committee or by the council , as provided elsewhere in this charter. Within twenty days of the filing, the clerk shall complete a certificate as to the petition's sufficiency, both with respect to the required number of valid signatures and with respect to compliance with other requirements, and in making this determination shall disregard any signatures not in accordance with the provisions of this charter. As soon as a certificate is completed, the clerk shall notify the petitioners' committee of its contents. <h) As soon as a petition is certified to be sufficient , .the clerk shall submit it to the county council along with the certification, and in the case of a recall petition, shall make notification of this action to the officer who is sought to be recalled. ( i ) If the petition is insufficient,, the certificate shall show the particulars wherein it is defective , and if a majority of the petitioners' committee elects to amend it, they shall notify the clerk of their intention to do so, and within ten days after receipt of the clerk's certificate, shall file a supplementary petition, governed by the same requirements as the original petition . Within five 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. (j) 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 595