A. Manner Of Referring Measure: The manner of referring a measure shall be as follows:
1. For a person to deposit at the office of the city recorder a duly prepared referendum petition for the measure; or
2. For the city council to order submission of the measure to the voters. (1962 Code § 1-13-3)
B. Form Of Petition: No referendum petition shall be deemed duly prepared unless it is in substantially the following form, and complies with state law: (1962 Code § 1-13-3; amd. 2014 Code)
"WARNING"
It is an offense for a person to sign this petition unless he is a legal voter of the City of Nyssa, or to sign it with a name not his own, or to sign his name to it knowingly more than once.
PETITION FOR REFERENDUM
To , Recorder of the City of Nyssa:
The undersigned legal voters of the City of Nyssa petition that the attached No. of the City of Nyssa, entitled and passed the day of , 20 , be referred to the legal voters of the City for their approval. Each of us for himself says: I have signed this petition, I am a legal voter of the City of Nyssa, and my address is written correctly after my name.
Name Address
1.
(In preparing the petition, provide twenty (20) numbered
lines such as this for signatures and addresses.)
C. Time For Referring Measure By Petition: No referendum petition for a measure shall be deemed duly prepared unless the petition and the signatures requisite to its being deemed duly prepared are deposited at the office of the city recorder within thirty (30) days after the city council enacts the measure.
D. Time For Council To Refer Measure: The city council may refer a measure only at the session at which it enacts the measure.
E. No Veto Of Referred Measure: The mayor shall have no power to veto a measure which the city council refers.
F. Submission Of Measure To Voters: The city recorder shall cause a referred measure to be submitted to the voters at the time fixed by this chapter. (1962 Code § 1-13-3)