SECTION 9.01 GENERAL AUTHORITY; INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
   (a)   Initiative. The registered electors of the Municipality shall have the power to propose ordinances and resolutions to the Council and, if the Council fails to adopt an ordinance or resolution so proposed without any change in substance, to adopt or reject it at an election, provided that such power shall not extend to the budget or capital program or any ordinance or resolution relating to the appropriation of money or salaries of Municipal officers or employees.
   (b)   Referendum. The registered electors of the Municipality shall have the power to require reconsideration by the Council of any adopted ordinance or resolution and, if the Council fails to repeal an ordinance or resolution so reconsidered, to approve or reject it at an election, provided that such power shall not extend to the budget or capital program or any emergency ordinance or resolution or ordinance or resolution relating to the appropriation of money or the levy of taxes, or any other ordinance or resolution which takes effect immediately under the provisions of Section 4.08 of this Charter. (Amended Nov. 2, 1993)
   (c)   Recall. The registered electors of the Municipality shall have the power to remove an elected officer by recall through the procedure set forth in the Ohio Revised Code with the following provision. Recall petitions must be signed by registered electors of the municipality equal in number to at least fifteen percent of the total number of registered electors in the Municipality at the time of the last general election at which a Governor was elected or in the case of the proposed removal of a Councilmember-at-large, or the number equal to at least fifteen percent of the registered electors within a particular ward at the time of the last general election at which a Governor was elected in the case of the proposed removal of a Councilmember from that particular ward. (Amended Nov. 4, 2008)