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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be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, the ordinance as passed by the commission shall be deemed repealed.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of Piqua may be filed with the city clerk, requesting that such ordinance, or any specified part thereof, be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors.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)
If a referendum petition, or amended petition be found sufficient by the city clerk, he shall certify that fact to the commission at its next regular meeting and the ordinance or part thereof specified in the petition shall not go into effect, or further action thereunder shall be suspended if it shall have gone into effect, until approved by the electors as hereinafter provided. Upon receipt of the clerk’s certificate the commission shall proceed to reconsider the ordinance, or part thereof, and its final vote upon such reconsideration shall be upon the question “Shall the ordinance (or part of the ordinance) set forth in the referendum petition be repealed?” If upon such reconsideration, the ordinance, or part thereof, be not repealed it shall be submitted to the electors at the next municipal election held not less than thirty days after such final vote by the commission. The commission by an affirmative vote of not less than seventy-five percent of the commission members may submit the ordinance, or part thereof, to the electors at a special election to be held not sooner than the time aforesaid. If when submitted to the electors any ordinance or part thereof, be not approved by a majority of those voting thereon it shall be deemed repealed.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 44-79)
Ordinances, or parts thereof, submitted to vote of the electors in accordance with the initiative and referendum provisions of this charter shall be submitted by ballot title which shall be prepared in all cases by the director of law. The ballot title may be distinct from the legal title of any such initiated or referred ordinance and shall be a clear, concise statement, without argument or prejudice, descriptive of the substance of such ordinance, or part thereof. The ballot used in voting upon any ordinance, or part thereof, shall have below the ballot title the following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated: “For the ordinance” and “Against the ordinance”. Immediately at the left of each proposition there shall be a square in which by making a cross mark (X), or other methods established by law, the elector may vote for or against the ordinance or part thereof. Any number of ordinances, or parts thereof, may be voted on at the same election and may be submitted on the same ballot, but the ballot used for voting thereon shall be for that purpose only.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 49-79)
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