Amendments to this Charter may be submitted to the electors of the City by an affirmative vote of at least all of the members elected to Council less two of the Council, and shall be submitted by the Council when a petition signed by ten per centum (10%) of the electors of the City voting at the last general election 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 or general election if one shall occur not less than sixty (60) nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days after passage of the ordinance providing for its submission, otherwise it shall be submitted to the electors as a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. Within the time prescribed by the Revised Code of Ohio, the City Clerk shall advertise in a newspaper of general circulation within the City of Portsmouth, Ohio, to advise each elector of said City that a proposed amendment to the Charter of the City of Portsmouth will be submitted at an election for their approval or rejection. 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.
(Adopted 11-2-71.)