Van Riper v. Threadgill

OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Presiding Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the failure to file a statement of organization form in connection with an application for a referendum petition renders the signatures obtained on the petition void. We hold that the failure to file the form in this case is excused because the information supplied to the applicant was too ambiguous to enable a person to determine whether the form had to be filed.

In September 1994, the Mayor and Common Council of the Town of Carefree voted unanimously to change the zoning classification of a twenty-acre parcel of property…