§ 38. Amendment of petitions.
A petition may be amended at any time within twenty days after the notification of insufficiency has been sent by the city clerk, by filing a supplementary petition upon additional papers signed and filed as provided in case of an original petition. The city clerk shall, within ten days after such an amendment is filed, examine the amended petition and, if the petition be still insufficient, he shall file his certificate to that effect in his office
and notify the person filing of his findings and no further action shall be had on such petition. The finding of the insufficiency of a petition shall not prevent the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.