1104

SUBMISSION OF PETITIONS FOR FILING

1104.1 The Board shall count the petition pages and issue a receipt for the total number of petition pages submitted; and thereafter shall serially number the pages and obliterate any blank lines appearing on each petition page.

1104.2 The Board shall refuse to accept for filing a recall petition or individual petition sheets on any of the following grounds:

(a) Except in the case of a recall petition for an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, the financial disclosure statement of the proposer has not been filed pursuant to §§ 204 and 206 of the District of Columbia Campaign Finance and Conflict of Interest Act;

(b) The petition sheet(s) is (are) not in the form certified by the Board in accordance with § 1101;

(c) The restrictions on initiating the recall process established in D.C. Official Code § 1-1001.17(c) (2011 Repl.; 2012 Supp.), and referred to in § 1100 were not observed;

(d) The circulation and submission period has expired;

(e) The petition on its face does not contain a sufficient number of signatures to qualify for ballot access;

(f) The circulator's affidavits prescribed in § 1101.3 do not appear on the petition sheets; or

(g) The petition sheets were circulated by persons who did not meet the petition circulator requirements set forth in § 1103.1.

1104.3 If the Board refuses to accept a petition for filing, the Board shall endorse the petition "submitted but not accepted" and the date, and retain the petition pending appeal.

1104.4 The proposer(s) of a rejected recall petition, pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 1-1001.17(j) (2006 Repl.), may petition the Superior Court of the District of Columbia within ten (10) days after the refusal for a writ in the nature of mandamus to compel the Board to accept the petition.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 42 DCR 4419, 4425-26 (August 18, 1995); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 60 DCR 5582 (April 12, 2013).