Any proposed ordinances, including ordinances for the repeal or amendment of an ordinance then in effect may be submitted to the City Commission by petition signed by at least five percent of the total number of voters in the Municipality. All petitions circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance shall be uniform in character, shall contain the proposed ordinance in full and shall have printed or written thereon the names and addresses of at least five electors who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purpose hereinafter named.
Each signer of a petition shall sign his name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall place on the petition, opposite his name, the date of his signature and his place of residence by voting precinct and by street and number. The signatures to any such petition need not all be appended to one paper, but to each such paper there shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator thereof, stating the number of signatures to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that it was made in the presence of the affiant and on the date indicated.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Signatures on petitions for initiative obtained by one paid to collect them in violation of Section 76 of the charter are still entitled to be counted to meet the requirements of Section 64 of the charter. City Commission of the City of Gallipolis v. State ex rel. Houck, 36 O. App. 253, 173 N.E. 36 (1930)).