Amendments to this Charter may be framed and submitted to the electors of the City by a Charter Committee in the manner provided by law for framing and submitting a new Charter. Amendments may also be proposed and submitted by ordinance passed by a vote of a majority of the members of the City Council, by a Charter Review Committee as defined in Section 2 of this Article, or by a petition signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors of the City, setting forth any proposed amendment, and filed with the Clerk of Council in accordance with the provisions of Section 1 of Article X of this Charter, whereupon the Council shall forthwith provide by ordinance for submitting such proposed amendment to a vote of the electors. Any ordinance for submitting a Charter amendment to the electors shall provide that such amendment be submitted at the next general election in November if one shall occur not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred fifty (150) days after the passage of the ordinance; otherwise, it shall provide for the submission of the amendment at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. Not less than thirty (30) days prior to an election on a Charter amendment the Clerk of Council shall mail a copy of the proposed amendment to each elector whose name appears upon the registration books of the last regular November election, or publish said proposed amendment in newspapers of general circulation, within the City limits, pursuant to State law. If a proposed amendment be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall become a part of the Charter at the time fixed therein.
(Amended November 6, 1973.)