SECTION 7. COUNCIL ACTION; POWERS.

   Upon receiving the proposed ordinance from the committee, the Council shall at once proceed to consider it and shall take final action thereon within thirty (30) 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 petitions may, as hereinafter provided, 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 the proposed ordinance was referred, or during the consideration thereof by the Council.

SECTION 8. CERTIFICATION; SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION.

   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 to the Clerk of the Council within thirty (30) days after the final action on such proposed ordinance by the Council and also file with the Clerk a supplemental petition asking that the proposed ordinance be submitted to popular vote, which petition shall be signed by ten (10) percent of the qualified electors of the City in addition to those who signed the original petition. The sufficiency in valid signatures of any such supplemental petition shall be determined, and it may be amended in the manner provided for original petitions for proposing ordinances to the Council.

SECTION 9. SUBMISSION TO ELECTORS.

   Upon receipt of the certificate, certified copy of the proposed ordinance and petition, the Clerk shall certify the fact to the Council at its next regular meeting. If a regular election is to be held not more than ninety (90) days or less than forty (40) days after the receipt of the Clerk's certificate by the Council, Council shall cause such proposed ordinance to be submitted to a vote of the electors at such election. If no such election is to be held within the time aforesaid the Council may provide for submitting the proposed ordinance to the electors at a special election. If no other provision is made as to the time of submitting a proposed ordinance to a vote of the electors, it shall be submitted at the next election.

SECTION 10. BALLOT FORM.

   The ballots used when voting upon any such proposed ordinance shall state the title of the ordinance to be voted on and below it the two propositions: "For the Ordinance" and "Against the Ordinance". Immediately at the left of each proposition shall be a square in which, by making a cross (X) the voter may vote for or against the proposed ordinance.

SECTION 11. MAJORITY VOTE ON INITIATIVE.

   If a majority of the qualified electors voting on any such proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereupon become an ordinance of the City.

SECTION 12. REPEALING ORDINANCES.

   Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances in whole or in part may be submitted to the Council as provided in this article.

SECTION 13. PUBLICATION, AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

   Ordinances adopted as provided in this article shall be published and may be amended or repealed with the concurrence of six members of Council and the approval of the Mayor.

(Adopted November 8, 1966)