The electors shall have the power to propose any ordinance or resolution except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, and to adopt or reject same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. An initiated ordinance or resolution shall be submitted to Council by a petition signed by at least ten percent (10%) of the total number of electors at time of such submission. A petition in such form may be circulated in separate parts but the separate parts shall be bound together and filed as one instrument. When so submitted, the Clerk of the Council shall determine the sufficiency of the petition and if found sufficient the Council shall take final action, either enacting, amending, or rejecting the proposed ordinance, within forty (40) days after submission of the petition. If Council fails to pass such proposed ordinance or resolution or passes it in some form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, the petitioners through the committee named on such petition may by the next regular meeting of Council request in writing that it be submitted to a vote of the electors. Thereupon, Council shall provide for submitting the petitioned ordinance or resolution to the electors at the next general or regular municipal election occurring more than ninety (90) days after the filing of such petition.
(Passed by electorate 11-8-22)