Pending the passage of any such ordinance or during the time intervening between its final passage and the expiration of the thirty days before which time it shall not take effect, it is hereby made the duty of the Board of Commissioners to order an election, if requested by written petition signed by 10% of the registered voters of Burkburnett, at which election the registered voters of Burkburnett shall vote for or against the proposed grant as set forth in detail by the ordinance conferring the rights and privileges upon the applicants therefor, which said ordinance shall be published at length and in full in the call for said election made by the Board of Commissioners, and if at said election the majority of the votes cast shall be for said ordinance and the making of said proposed grant, the same shall thereupon become effective, but if a majority of the votes cast at said election so held shall be against the passage of said ordinance and the making of said grant, said ordinance shall not pass nor shall it confer any rights, powers or, privileges of any kind whatever upon the applicants therefor, and it shall be the duty of said Board, after canvassing the vote of said election to pass an ordinance repealing the ordinance which has been by it passed, if the same has been passed.
(Adopted May 8, 1923; Am. Ord. 933, passed 5-14-18; as amended by election held on May 5, 2018)