The city commission of The City of Springfield shall not enact any ordinance regulating the sale, renting, leasing, subleasing, listing, advertisement, transfer, assignment or financing of real property (other than the furnishing of facilities and lodging in establishments of public accommodation) referable to consideration of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry unless such measure first shall have been submitted to and approved by the electors of The City of Springfield, Ohio. The procedure for the submission of such plan to the electorate shall be the same as those provided in Sections 50, 51 and 52 of the Charter of The City of Springfield for the submission to the electorate of an initiated ordinance. Any such ordinance in effect at the time of adoption of this section automatically shall cease to be effective until approved by the electors as provided above.
(Enacted 11-7-67.)