SECTION 17. MAJORITY VOTE ON REFERENDUM.

   If, when submitted to a vote of the electors, any such ordinance be not approved by a majority of those voting thereon, it shall be deemed repealed.

SECTION 18. FORM OF PETITIONS.

   Referendum petitions shall be subject in all respects to the requirements for petitions submitting proposed ordinances to Council.

SECTION 19. ENACTMENTS NOT SUBJECT TO REFERENDUM.

   The following ordinances and resolutions of the Council shall not be subject to referendum, to-wit:

   (a)   General appropriation ordinances.

   (b)   Ordinances appropriating money for improvements or expenditures of any kind when the money so appropriated has been obtained or authorized to be obtained by bond issues; provided that all ordinances authorizing bond issues shall be subject to a referendum, except bond issues in anticipation of the collection of special assessments.

   (c)   Ordinances appropriating money for the discharge of lawful obligations of the City or authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes for the discharge of such obligations.

   (d)   Ordinances authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes in anticipation of the collection of special assessments.

   (e)   Ordinances authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes for street intersection improvements.

   (f)   Ordinances providing for the payment of the regular daily expenses of any department of the City.

SECTION 20. CONFLICT OF PROVISIONS.

   If the provisions of two or more ordinances adopted or approved at the same election conflict, the provisions of the ordinance receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail.

SECTION 21. EMERGENCY MEASURES.

   Ordinances passed as emergency measures shall be subject to referendum in like manner as other ordinances.

SECTION 22. ACTS PRELIMINARY TO ELECTION.

   In case a petition is filed requiring that a measure passed by the Council providing for an expenditure of money, a bond issue, or a public improvement, be submitted to a vote of the electors, all steps preliminary to such actual expenditure, actual issuance of bonds, or actual execution of a contract for such improvement, may be taken prior to the election.

The Recall

SECTION 23. RECALL PROCEDURE.

   Any elective official provided for in this Charter may be removed from office by the electorate qualified to vote for a successor to such officer. Such officer shall be subject to removal in such manner as is now or may be hereafter provided by this Charter. The procedure to effect such removal shall be as follows:

   A petition demanding that the question of removing such official be submitted to the electors qualified to vote for his or her successor shall be addressed to the Council and filed with the Clerk thereof. The petition shall contain a statement in not more than two hundred (200) words of the grounds upon which removal of such person is sought. Such petition shall be signed by registered voters (electors) equal in number to at least twenty-five (25) percent of the total vote cast at the election for such office, at the last preceding general Municipal election.

(Adopted November 4, 1969)

SECTION 24. PETITIONS.

   Petition papers shall be procured only from the Clerk of the Council, who shall keep a sufficient number of such blank petition papers on file for distribution as herein provided. Prior to the issuance of such petition papers an affidavit shall be made by one or more qualified electors and filed with the Clerk, stating the name and office of the officer sought to be removed. The Clerk, upon issuing any such petition paper to an elector, shall enter in a record, to be kept in the Clerk's office, the name of the elector to whom issued and shall certify upon each paper the name of the elector to whom issued and the date of issuance. No petition paper so issued shall be accepted as part of a petition unless it bears such certificates of the Clerk and unless it be filed as provided herein.