An initiative or referendum petition may be circulated in separate parts, but the separate parts shall be bound together and filed as one instrument. Each part shall contain a full and correct copy of the title and of the text of the proposed or referred ordinance or resolution. The manner of signing, the method of circulating, the form and requirements as to the affidavit, and the other requirements of the general law regulating initiative and referendum petitions shall apply in the case of initiative and of referendum in this Municipality, except as otherwise provided in
this Charter. It shall not be necessary to file a copy of the proposed or referred ordinance or resolution with the Clerk of the Council prior to circulating an initiative or referendum petition. Ordinances proposed by initiative petition and referendums receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon, shall become effective on the fifth day after the day on which the Board of Elections certifies the official vote on such question.
No ordinance or resolution proposed by initiative petition and approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the measure shall be subject to the veto of the Mayor. The Council may, as provided with respect to any ordinance or resolution, amend, modify or repeal any such measure, proposed and adopted by the initiative process or approved by the referendum process.
Whenever the Council is required to pass more than one (1) ordinance or resolution to complete the legislation necessary to make and pay for any public improvement, the general law of the State of Ohio, and the provisions of this Article of this Charter shall apply only to the first ordinance or resolution required to be passed and not to any subsequent ordinances or resolutions relating thereto. Any ordinance or resolution passed by the Council shall be subject to the referendum except that ordinances or resolutions providing for appropriation for the current expenses of the Village, or for street, sidewalk, water or sewer improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the feet front of the property benefited or by the owners of a majority of the parcels of the property benefited and to be especially assessed for the cost thereof, and emergency ordinances or resolutions necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety shall go into immediate effect as provided in this Charter and shall not be subject to the referendum. Such emergency ordinances or resolutions must, upon a yea and nay vote receive not less than five (5) votes of all the members elected to Council. The reason or reasons for such necessity shall not be required to be set forth in the ordinance or resolution, but in the title and in at least one (1) section of the ordinance or resolution, the measure must be declared to be an emergency ordinance or resolution.