All separate petitions comprising a nominating petition for a candidate shall be assembled and filed with the City Clerk as one instrument. No nominating petition shall be accepted by the City Clerk unless accompanied by a signed acceptance of the nomination by the candidate therein nominated. The City Clerk upon filing with him of a nominating petition shall by specific count determine whether or not such petition is signed by the requisite number of qualified electors. Within ten (10) days after filing of each such petition with the City Clerk, he shall attach his certificate thereto showing the result of his examination. If, by the City Clerk’s certificate, it shall appear that the petition has not been signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, it may be supplemented by filing a supplemental petition at any time prior to ninety (90) days before the Mayor and Council Election. The City Clerk shall, within ten (10) days after the filing of each such supplemental petition, make like examination of the supplemental petition, and shall certify as to the result of the examination, but no further supplement shall be allowed; and provided, further, that no supplement to such petition shall be allowed after the expiration of the time for filing nominating petitions as set forth in Section 2 of this Chapter XII. If the petition, either as originally filed or as supplemented, shall be found to be sufficiently signed as herein provided, the same shall be filed by the City Clerk and when filed shall not be withdrawn or supplemented. If the petition, either as originally filed or as supplemented, is insufficient, then the City Clerk shall make and retain a photocopy of the petition and shall then return the petition to the person who filed it or to the candidate named therein.

(Election of 11-5-1985; election of 9-11-2007, § 1)