Amendments to this charter may be submitted to the electors of the city by a two-thirds vote of the city commission, and shall be submitted by the commission when a petition signed by 1,250 registered voters of the City of Piqua, setting forth any such proposed amendment, shall have been filed with the election authorities in the manner and form prescribed herein for the submission of ordinances by initiative petition. Any such amendment shall be submitted to the electors at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty (60) nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days after passage of the ordinance providing for its submission, otherwise it shall be submitted to the electors at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. Copies of the proposed amendments may be mailed to the electors whose names appear upon the registration books of the last regular municipal or general election, or notice of proposed amendments may be given by newspaper advertising. If such 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. The city commission, by resolution, shall appoint a charter review committee not less than every ten (10) years commencing in the year nineteen hundred seventy-nine (1979), for the purpose of reviewing and, or recommending amendments to this charter.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1978 – Amending Ordinance No. 49 -78; Adopted by electorate, November 3, 2009 – Amending Ord. No. 11-09)
The Charter review committee shall consist of not less than five and not more than nine members who shall be electors of the city with at least one member residing in each ward of the city.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1989 – Amending Ordinance No. 62-89)