O-2021-3814 calling a special election for proposed amendments to the La Porte Home Rule Charter, May 1, 2021

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AMENDMENT X. Amending Article VI, Section 6.01. – Power of initiative. The registered voters of the city shall have power to propose ordinances to the council and, if the council fails to adopt an ordinance so proposed without any change in substance, to adopt or reject such ordinance at a city election, such power known as the initiative, but such power shall not extend to the budget or capital program, granting of franchises, or any ordinance relating to appropriation of money, levy of taxes or salaries of city officers or employees, or in conflict with this Charter, or the Constitution and laws of the Stateof Texas. AMENDMENT Y. Amending Article VI, Section 6.02. – Power of referendum. The qualified voters shall have power to approve or reject at the polls any ordinance passed by council, or submitted by council to a vote of the qualified voters, such power being known as the referendum, but such power shall not extend to the budget, capital program, granting of franchises, or ordinance relating to appropriation of money or levying of taxes, or the preservation of public peace, health, or safety under emergency conditions. Ordinances submitted to council by initiative petition and passed by council without change shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as the other ordinances. AMENDMENT Z. Amending Article VI, Section 6.03. -Procedure for initiative or referendum petition. a. Form of petition. 1. Text. 1.Text.Initiative petition signature pages shall contain the full caption of the proposed ordinance. The full text of the proposed ordinance shall be attached to the petition signature pages in order that it may be inspected before the petition is signed. AMENDMENT AA. Amending Article VI, Section 6.03. -Procedure for initiative or referendum petition. a. Form of petition. 2. Signatures. (a) a.The signatures to initiative or referendum petitions need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate petition there shall be attached a statement of the circulator thereof as provided by this section. Each signer of any petition paper shall sign his or her name and shall indicate after his or her name his or her place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place. AMENDMENT BB. Amending Article VI, Section 6.03. - Procedure for initiative or referendum petition. a. Form of petition. 2. Signatures. (b) The petition shall be signed by a minimum of five hundred (500) registered voters of the city. AMENDMENT CC. Amending Article VI, Section 6.03. -Procedure for initiative or referendum petition. a. Form of petition. 3. Circulators.