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SECTION 8.03 SPECIAL ELECTIONS.
   The Council may, at any time, by ordinance or resolution, order a special election, the purpose of which shall be set forth in the ordinance or resolution.
SECTION 8.04 CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS.
   All regular and special municipal elections shall be conducted by the Board of Elections of the County in which the Municipality is located under the provisions of this Charter, so far as they are applicable. Where the Charter is silent, the provisions of the Ohio Election Laws shall be followed.
ARTICLE IX: INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
SECTION 9.01 INITIATIVE.
   Ordinances and resolutions may be proposed by initiative petition and adopted by election in the manner now or hereafter provided by the Constitution or the laws of the State of Ohio except that the initiative petitions shall be filed with the Clerk of Council, and except that the proposed ordinance or resolution shall be submitted to the electors for approval or rejection at the next succeeding general or primary election occurring subsequent to ninety days after the certification of the proposed ordinance or resolution to the Board of Elections, or at a special election to be held on a date fixed by the Council by a vote of at least four of the members thereof and certified by the Clerk of Council to the Board of Elections.
SECTION 9.02 REFERENDUM.
   Ordinances and resolutions adopted by Council shall be subject to referendum to the extent and in the manner now or hereafter provided by the Constitution or the laws of the State of Ohio, except that such ordinances and resolutions subjected to referendum shall be submitted to the electors for approval or rejection at the next succeeding general election or primary election occurring subsequent to ninety days after the certifying of such referendum petition to the Board of Elections or at a special election to be held on a date fixed by the Council by a vote of at least four of the members thereof and certified by the Clerk of Council to the Board of Elections, and except that referendum petitions shall be filed with the Clerk of Council.
SECTION 9.03 REFERRAL OF ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION TO THE ELECTORS BY COUNCIL.
   By a vote of at least five members of the Council, any pending ordinance or resolution may be referred to the electors of the Municipality at a general, primary or special election. The action of referral provided for in this section shall be taken by motion and shall go into immediate effect without publication. Such motion shall be passed not less than ninety days prior to the date of the primary or general election at which such referred ordinance or resolution is to be submitted. In the event that such ordinance or resolution is to be referred for approval or rejection at a special election, the Council shall, by motion, fix a date for such special election at a date not less than ninety days after the date of the passage of the motion to refer, and the Clerk of Council shall cause notice of the special election to be published on the same day of each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper determined by Council to be of circulation in the Municipality or cause such notice to be published on the City website.
   The Clerk of Council shall certify to the appropriate Board of Elections that an election is to be held referring such ordinance or resolution to a vote of the electors at the date fixed by Council as hereinbefore provided. The Clerk of Council shall also certify a copy of the ordinance or resolution to be voted upon to the appropriate Board of Elections.
   At such primary, general or special election this question shall be placed upon the ballot: “Shall an (ordinance or resolution) providing: (the wording contained in the title of the proposed ordinance or resolution shall be inserted here) be adopted?”; with the provision on the ballot for voting affirmatively or negatively. In the event a majority of those voting on the issue shall be in the affirmative, the ordinance or resolution shall go into immediate effect, without the need for further publication.
(Amended February 8, 2021 (approved November 3, 2020))
ARTICLE X: FINANCES, TAXATION AND DEBT
SECTION 10.01 GENERAL.
   The laws of the State of Ohio relating generally to budgets, appropriations, debts, bonds, assessments and other fiscal matters of the Municipality shall be applicable to the Municipality, except as modified by or necessarily inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter or ordinances of Council enacted pursuant thereto and except when provision therefor is made in the Constitution of the State of Ohio.
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