Amendments.

   Section 123.   Amendments to this charter may be submitted to the electors of the city by a two-thirds vote of the council, or when a petition signed by ten per cent (10%) of the electors of the city, setting forth any such proposed amendment has been filed with the election authorities in the manner and form prescribed herein for the submission of ordinances by an initiative petition.

   The ordinance providing for the submission of 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 and twenty (120) days after its passage; otherwise it shall provide for the submission of the amendment at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid.

   Not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election the director of finance and public record shall provide notice of proposed amendments in a newspaper of general circulation advertising the proposed amendments in accordance with State law.

   If such proposed amendment be approved by the majority of the electors voting thereon it shall become a part of the charter at the time fixed therein.

(Amended 6-9-1981)