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If an initiative petition or amended petition, be found sufficient by the city clerk he shall immediately so certify and promptly submit the proposed ordinance therein set forth to the commission which shall at once read it and refer it to an appropriate committee, which may be a committee of the whole. Provision shall be made for public hearings upon the proposed ordinance before the committee to which it is referred. Thereafter the committee shall report the proposed ordinance to the commission, with its recommendations thereon, not later than sixty days after the date on which it was submitted to the commission by the city clerk. Upon receiving the proposed ordinance from the committee, the commission shall proceed at once to consider it and to take final action thereon within thirty days from the date of such committee report.
If the commission fails to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition or passes it in a form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, the committee of the petitioners hereinafter provided for may require that it be submitted to a vote of the electors either in its original form or with any change or amendment presented in writing either at a public hearing before the committee to which the proposed ordinance was referred or during the consideration thereof by the commission. If the committee of petitioners require the submission of a proposed ordinance to a vote of the electors they shall certify that fact to the city clerk, and file in his office a certified copy of the proposed ordinance in the form in which it is to be submitted, within ten business days after final action on such proposed ordinance by commission.
(Adopted by electorate, November 3, 2009 – Amending Ord. No. 11-09)
Upon receipt of the certified coy of a proposed ordinance from the committee of the petitioners the city clerk shall certify that fact to the commission at the next regular meeting. If any election is to be held not more than one year nor less than thirty days after the receipt of the clerk’s certificate by the commission, the proposed ordinance shall be submitted to a vote of the electors at the first such election unless the commission provides for submitting it to the electors at a special election to be held within the time aforesaid. If no other election is to be held within one year and not less than thirty days after the receipt of the clerk’s certificate as aforesaid, the commission shall provide for submitting the proposed ordinance to the electors at a special election to be held within that time. If, when submitted to the electors, a majority of those voting on a proposed ordinance vote in favor thereof, it shall be an ordinance of the city. Initiated ordinances adopted by the electors shall be published, and may be amended or repealed by the commission, as in the case of other ordinances.
When an ordinance proposed by initiative petition is passed by the commission in a changed or amended form, and the committee of the petitioners require that such proposed ordinance be submitted to a vote of the electors as provided in Section 16 hereof, the ordinance as passed by the commission shall not take effect until after such vote and, if the proposed ordinance so submitted be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, the ordinance as passed by the commission shall be deemed repealed.
The electors shall have power to approve or reject at the polls any ordinance passed by the commission, or submitted by the commission to a vote of the electors, except an appropriation ordinance, such power being known as referendum ordinance submitted to the commission by initiative petition and passed by the commission without change, or passed in an amended form and not required by the committee of the petitioners to be submitted to a vote of the electors, shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances.
Within thirty days after the final passage by the commission of an ordinance which is subject to referendum, a petition signed by 750 registered voters from the City of Piqua may be filed with the city clerk, requesting that such ordinance, or any specified part thereof, be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors. Referendum petition papers circulated with respect to the same ordinance, or part of an ordinance, shall be uniform in character and shall clearly specify the ordinance, or part thereof, repeal of which is sought but need not contain the text thereof. The form of the petition shall be as follows:
PETITION TO REPEAL ORDINANCE NO. X AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON [DATE], WHICH IS [TITLE OF ORDINANCE] |
This Ordinance [summary of ordinance]. |
The petition shall also contain the affidavit as required in Section 27 of this Charter.
(Adopted by electorate, November 3, 2009 – Amending Ord. No. 11-09)
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