SECTION 17 ELECTION ON INITIATED ORDINANCE.

   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 Initiated ordinances adopted by the electors shall be published, and may be amended or repealed by the commission, as in the case of other ordinances.

SECTION 18 INITIATED ORDINANCE PASSED BY COMMISSION IN AMENDED FORM.

   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be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, the ordinance as passed by the commission shall be deemed repealed.

SECTION 19 INITIATED REPEALING ORDINANCE.

   Ordinances may be proposed by initiative petition for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances, in whole or in part, in the same manner as provided in the preceding sections for initiating other ordinances.

SECTION 20 POWER OF REFERENDUM.

   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.