§ 18-12-127. Submission of completed petition.

(a)

A DNIO seeking to establish a SAD pursuant to this division shall submit the completed petition to the City Clerk. A completed petition may consist of multiple signed counterparts. The administering department may require the DNIO to submit on a form provided by the administering department a summary of the petition, to include such items as the number of exempt, nonexempt, and total tax parcels in the SAD, the area of land in the SAD, the number of signatures, the total area of the tax parcels whose record owners signed the petition, and the percentage of the land comprising the SAD receiving signatures. To be complete, and in compliance with MCL 117.5i, the petition must be signed by the Record Owners of not less than 51 percent of the land within the geographic boundaries of the proposed SAD.

(b)

If pursuant to section 18-12-128, the administering department finds that a petition lacks sufficient signatures or is deficient in any other manner, a DNIO may submit to the City Clerk a supplemental petition containing additional signatures or otherwise correcting the deficiencies.

(c)

For purposes of the calculation in subsection (a), the identities of the record owners of tax parcels within a SAD and the validity of the signatures on a petition shall be determined as of the records existing on the date a DNIO submits a petition to the City Clerk in accordance with the definition of "record owner" under section 18-12-121.

(d)

The City Clerk shall report receipt of the petition to the City Council, file the original petition and any supplemental petitions in its records, and forward a copy of the petition and any supplemental petitions to the administering department.

(Ord. No. 07-14, § 1, 4-29-14)