Amendments to this charter may be framed and proposed:
(a) In the manner provided by law, or
(b) By ordinance of the city council containing the full text of the proposed amendment (except that sections 1.04, 1.05, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, and 2.04 and article III cannot be so amended) and effective upon adoption, or
(c) By report of a charter commission created by ordinance; or
(d) By the voters of the city, when any 15 qualified voters initiate proceedings to amend the charter by filing with the city clerk an affidavit stating they will constitute the petitioners’ committee and be responsible for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and addresses and specifying the address to which all notices to the committee are to be sent, and setting out in full the proposed charter amendment. Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioners’ committee is filed the clerk shall issue the appropriate petition blanks to the petitioners’ committee. The petitions shall contain or have attached thereto throughout their circulation the full text of the proposed charter amendment and must be signed by registered voters of the city in the number of at least 5 percent of the total number of registered voters at the last regular city election, or the number of signatures required by state law, whichever is greater.
(6-2-20, § B)