§ 58 Repealing Ordinances

   Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances in whole or in part may be submitted to the Council as provided in the preceding sections for initiating ordinances. Initiated ordinances adopted by the electors of the City shall be published and may be amended or repealed by the Council as in the case of other ordinances.

(Effective November 8, 1994)

§ 59 The Referendum

   No ordinance passed by the Council, unless it be an emergency measure, shall go into effect until thirty (30) days after its final passage by the Council. If at any time within said thirty (30) days, a petition signed by electors equal in number to ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast at the last preceding regular Municipal election of the City be filed with the Clerk of the Council requesting that the ordinance, or any specified part thereof, be repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors, it shall not become operative until the steps indicated herein have been taken. The petition shall be prepared and filed in the manner and form prescribed in the foregoing sections of this Charter for an initiative petition for an ordinance.

(Effective November 4, 2008)

§ 60 Petition for Referendum

   When such a petition is filed with the Clerk of the Council he shall determine the sufficiency thereof in the manner provided in this Charter for an initiative petition for an ordinance. If the petition be found sufficient, or be rendered sufficient by amendment as provided in Sections 52, 53 and 54 hereof, the Clerk shall certify that fact to the Council, which shall proceed to reconsider the ordinance. If, upon such reconsideration, the ordinance be not entirely repealed the Council shall provide for submitting it to a vote of the electors of the City, and in so doing the Council shall be governed by the provisions of Sections 57 and 66 hereof respecting the time of submission and manner of voting on ordinances proposed to the Council by petition.

(Effective November 8, 1994)

§ 61 Petition for Referendum Text

   Referendum petitions need not contain the text of the ordinances, the repeal of which is sought but they shall be subject in all other respects to the requirements for petitions submitting proposed ordinances to the Council.

(Effective November 9, 1931)

§ 62 Initiative Ordinances Subject to Referendum

   Ordinances submitted to the Council, by initiative petition and passed by the Council without change, or passed in an amended form and not required to be submitted to a vote of the electors of the City by the committee of the petitioners, shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances.

(Effective November 8, 1994)