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ARTICLE VIII. INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL Section 8.01. General authority. There is hereby reserved to the electors of the city the powers of the initiative, the referendum and the recall of elective officers. The provisions of the constitution and laws of this state, as the same now exist or hereafter may be amended, governing the initiative and referendum and the recall of elective officers, shall apply to the THEIR use thereof in the city so far INSOFAR as such provisions are not in conflict with the provisions of the THIS charter. Section 8.02. Commencement of proceedings, petitioners' committee, affidavit. Any five qualified voters may commence initiative or referendum proceedings by filing with the city clerk an affidavit stating THAT they will constitute the petitioners' committee and WILL be responsible for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and addresses and specifying the address to which all notices to the committee are to be sent, and setting out in full the proposed initiative ordinance or citing the ordinance sought to be reconsidered. Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioners' committee is filed, the city clerk shall issue the appropriate petition blanks to the petitioners' committee.