If a petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number to twenty per cent of the total number of qualified electors at the time of the last preceding general municipal election shall be filed with the city clerk pursuant to the deadlines estab-lished by general state law prior to the date of any general municipal election, requesting the council to call a primary nominating election, the council shall, after receiving the certificate of the clerk to the effect that the petition has been signed by the requisite number of qualified electors, call such primary election, and the candidates to be voted for at the general municipal election shall be nominated at such primary nominating election in the manner hereinafter prescribed and no names shall be printed upon the ballot for such general election other than the names of those selected in such manner.
Editor's note: This section was amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.