A. All Ordinances and Statutory Resolutions of the Council, except fixing the tax rate and the enactment of emergency Ordinances, shall be subject to overrule167.
(1) If within twenty (20) Days after Final Action, a petition signed by not less than fifteen (15%) percent of the Electors of the Town, as determined from the last official voting list, is filed with the Town Clerk requesting a referendum, the Council shall, at its next regular meeting, fix a time not more than thirty (30) Days after such meeting for such election, which shall be called and held in the manner provided by the General Statutes168.
(2) Any Ordinance or Statutory Resolution so referred to the voters shall stand approved unless a majority of those voting thereon at such election shall have voted "no" and at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the Electors entitled to vote on the question shall have voted169.
(3) The Council may by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3rds) of those present and voting add non binding referenda to be on the ballot of such election170.
B. This section shall not apply to the borrowing of funds. The borrowing of funds shall be governed solely by the provisions of §§ 10-10 and 10-11
171 of this Charter. Moreover, this section shall not apply to the Budget. The Budget overrule shall be governed solely by the provisions of § 10-7 of this Charter
172.
167 1983 Charter § 3-10 (first paragraph, first sentence).
168 2011 modification of 1983 Charter § 3-10 (first paragraph, second sentence) by reducing the requisite percentage of signatures to 15%. The provision pertaining to "final action" is in lieu of the following: "...the approval of an Ordinance or resolution by the Mayor, or passage by the Mayor's failure to act, or passage by the Council after the Mayor's disapproval, as provided in §38."
169 1983 Charter § 3-10 (first paragraph, third sentence).
170 1983 Charter § 3-10 (first paragraph, fourth sentence).
171 1983 Charter § 3-10 (second paragraph).
172 1983 Charter § 3-10 (third paragraph).