§ 3.07. Circulation of nominating petitions.

Nominating petitions for the elective office of Council Member shall be circulated by a registered elector who is a resident of the ward from which the candidate named thereon seeks election as Council Member. The nominating petition for the office of the Mayor shall be circulated by a registered elector of the City. Each page of the petition filed as part of a nominating petition shall be verified by the circulator. The verification shall state that the signatures on the petition page were obtained by the circulator, were signed in the circulator's presence, and that to the best of the circulator's knowledge and belief each signature thereon is the genuine signature of the person purporting to sign the same, and that the person was at the time of signing the nominating petition for Mayor, a registered elector of the City, or at the time of signing a nominating petition for Council Member, a registered elector residing in the ward from which the candidate named on the petition seeks to be elected Council Member.