SECTION 16. REFERENDUM PETITIONS - FILING AND PROCEDURE.

   (a)    No ordinance or resolution passed by the Council, unless it be an emergency measure, or unless otherwise provided by this Charter, shall go into effect until twenty days after its final passage by the Council. If at any time, within said twenty days, a petition signed by electors equal in number to ten percent of the total vote cast at the last preceding regular municipal election of the City for the office of Mayor be filed with the City Attorney requesting that any such ordinance or resolution, or any specified part thereof, be submitted to a vote of the electors, such ordinance or resolution, or such specified part thereof shall not become effective, and it shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the City on the next regular day designated by State law or this Charter for the holding of a primary or a general election, provided that such election day shall occur at least thirty (30) days after receipt of the certificate by the City Attorney that the referendum petitions filed have been found to be sufficient; except that the Council may provide for referring such ordinance or resolution to the electors at a special election on a date fixed by the Council upon a two-thirds vote of the members of the Council.

   (b)    Referendum petitions shall be prepared and filed in the manner and form prescribed and may be amended as provided in the foregoing sections of this Charter for an initiative petition for an ordinance or resolution, provided that such petitions may be amended once only. If the City Attorney finds that the amended petitions are insufficient, or in the event the City Attorney finds the original petitions are insufficient and amended petitions are not filed within the time allowed, the City Attorney shall certify a final finding of insufficiency to the petitioner's committee and further referendum petitions may not be filed on such ordinance or resolution or part thereof. If the original or amended petitions are found to be sufficient, the City Attorney shall certify such finding to the Clerk of the Council and the Council shall refer said ordinance or resolution, or part thereof, to the electors as provided in paragraph (a) of this section.

   (c)    Ordinances or resolutions of the following types shall not be subject to referendum:

      (1)    Appropriation ordinances or resolutions.

      (2)    Ordinances or resolutions providing for the approval or disapproval of appointments or removals and appointments or removals made by Council.

      (3)    Actions by Council on the approval of official bonds.

      (4)    Ordinances or resolutions providing for the submission of any proposition to a vote of the electors.

      (5)    Ordinances or resolutions providing for street improvements petitioned for by owners of a majority of the feet front of the property benefited and to be specially assessed for the cost thereof.

      (6)    Ordinances or resolutions passed as emergency measures.
(Amended 11-6-18.)