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When the Clerk determines the petition to be sufficient, the proposed ordinance shall be submitted to the Council at its next regular meeting and the Council shall at once refer the same to an appropriate committee, which may be the committee of the whole. Provision shall be made for public hearings upon the proposed ordinance before the committee to which it is referred. Thereafter the committee shall report the proposed ordinance to the Council, with its recommendations thereon, not later than sixty days after the date on which the proposed ordinance was submitted to the Council by the Clerk. (Amended 5-7-13)
Upon receiving the proposed ordinance from the committee, the Council shall at once proceed to consider it and shall take final action thereon within sixty (60) days from the date of such committee report. If the Council rejects the proposed ordinance, or passes it in a form different from that set forth in the petition, the committee of the petitioners may require that it be submitted to a vote of the electors in its original form, or that it be submitted to a vote of the electors with any proposed change, addition or amendment, which was presented in writing either at a public hearing before the committee to which such proposed ordinance was referred, or during the consideration thereof by the Council. (Amended 5-7-13)
When an ordinance proposed by petition is to be submitted to a vote of the electors the committee of the petitioners shall certify that fact and the proposed ordinance, in the form in which it is to be submitted to the Clerk of the Council within ten (10) days after the final action on such proposed ordinance by the Council.
Upon receipt of the certificates and certified copy of the proposed ordinance, the Clerk shall certify the fact to the Council at its next regular meeting. Council shall provide for submitting the proposed ordinance to the electors on the next regular day designated by State law for the holding of a primary or a general election provided that such election day shall occur at least thirty (30) days after the receipt of the Clerk's certificate by the Council, except that Council may provide for submitting the proposed ordinance to the electors at a special election when two-thirds of the members elected to the Council specifically determine such to be necessary. (Amended 11-6-62)
Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances in whole or in part may be submitted to the Council as provided in the preceding sections for the initiating ordinances. Initiated ordinances, adopted by the electors, shall be published and may be amended or repealed by the Council as in the case of other ordinances.
If at any time within twenty (20) days after passage of an ordinance which was not passed by at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of members elected to Council, a petition signed by electors equal in number to at least ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast at the last preceding regular municipal election of the City is filed with the Clerk of the Council requesting that any such ordinance, or any specified part thereof, be repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors, it shall not become operative with respect to any actions or obligations not yet undertaken under the ordinance, until the steps indicated herein have been taken. The petition shall be prepared and filed in the manner and form prescribed in the foregoing sections of this Charter for an initiative petition for an ordinance. An ordinance passed by at least a two-thirds (2/3) majority of members elected to Council shall not be subject to referendum. (Amended 11-7-44; 5-7-13)
When such a petition is filed with the Clerk of the Council, the Clerk shall determine the sufficiency thereof in the manner provided in this Charter for an initiative petition for an ordinance. If the petition is found sufficient, the Clerk shall certify that fact to the Council, which shall proceed to reconsider the ordinance. If upon such reconsideration the ordinance is not entirely repealed, the Council shall provide for submitting it to a vote of the electors, and in so doing the Council shall be governed by the provisions of Sections 55 and 64 hereof respecting the time of submission and manner of voting on ordinances proposed to the Council by petition. (Amended 5-7-13)
Ordinances submitted to the Council, by initiative petition and passed by the Council without change, or passed in an amended form and not required to be submitted to a vote of the electors by the committee of the petitioners, shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances.
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