When a citizen or citizens desire to circulate a petition initiating a proposition of any nature, whether to become an ordinance or an amendment to the Charter, or for the purpose of invoking a referendum upon Council enactments, such citizen or citizens shall, when such petition is prepared, and before the same is circulated or signed by electors, file a true and exact copy of same in the office of the City Clerk and, within 90 days after such filing of an initiative petition, the signed copies thereof shall be filed with the City Clerk, but the signed copies of a referendum petition shall be filed with the City Clerk within 30 days after the passage of the ordinance on which the referendum is invoked. The electors shall sign their legally registered name, their address in the city. Any petition not filed in accordance with this provision shall not be considered.
(`91 Code, § 22-7) (Ord. 2914, passed - - )