(a) Right to Referendum. Any ordinance or other measure passed by the Village Council shall be subject to the referendum rights of voters of the Village.
(b) Petition. Whoever files a referendum petition against any ordinance or measure shall, before circulating the petition, file a certified copy of the proposed ordinance or measure with the Village Clerk. When a petition, signed by ten percent (10%) of the voters who voted at the last regular general election, is filed with the Village Clerk within thirty (30) days after any ordinance or other measure is passed by the Village Council, ordering that the ordinance or measure be submitted to the voters of the Village for their approval or rejection, the Clerk shall, after ten (10) days, and not later than 4:00 p.m. of the seventy-fifth (75th) day before the day of election, transmit a certified copy of the text of the ordinance or measure to the Board of Elections. The Village Clerk shall transmit the petition to the Board, together with the certified copy of the ordinance or measure. The Board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of voters of the Village who signed the petition. The Board shall return the petition to the Clerk within ten (10) days after receiving it, together with a statement attesting to the number of voters who signed the petition. Any referendum petition may be presented in separate parts, but each part shall contain the number and a full and correct copy of the title of the ordinance or other measure sought to be referred. Each signer of any such petition must be a registered voter of the Village. Whoever knowingly signs a referendum petition more than once, signs a name other than his or her own, or signs when not a legal voter, is liable to prosecution as Council has determined by a general ordinance concerning the acts specified in this section.
(c) Referendum. The board shall submit the ordinance or measure to the voters of the Village, for their approval or rejection, at the next regular Village or general election occurring seventy-five (75) days or later after the Clerk certifies the sufficiency and validity of the petition to the Board of Elections. No such ordinance or measure shall go into effect until approved by the majority of those voting upon it.
(d) Validity of Ordinance or Other Measure. No ordinance or other measure submitted to the voters of the Village, and receiving an affirmative majority of those voting, shall be held ineffective or void on account of the insufficiency of the petitions by which such submission of the ordinance or measure was procured, nor shall the rejection, by a majority of the votes cast thereon, of any ordinance or other measure submitted to the voters of the Village, be held invalid for such insufficiency.
(e) Certified Defined. As used in this section, "certified copy" means a copy containing a written statement attesting that it is a true and exact reproduction of the original ordinance or other measure.