1968 Recommendations to Change Fiscal Year

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Article X. Initiative, Referendum and Recall Section 89. Power of initiative. The electors shall have the power to propose any ordin"VO except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any initiative ordinance may be submitted to the commission by a petition` signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number in at least fifty per centum (50 Jc) of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal election. Section 90. Power of referendum. The electors shall have power to approve or reject at The -polls any ordinance passed by the commission, or submitted by the commission to a vote of the electors, except as provided in section 55, such power being known as the referendum. Ordinances submitted to the commission by initiative petition and ;passed by the commission without change shall be sub- ject to the referendum in the same manner as the other ordi- nances. Within twenty (20) days after the enactment by the commission of any ordinance which is subject to a refer- endum, a petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number .to at least fifty per centum (507o) of the number of votes cast at the last preceding regular municipal election may be filed with the city clerk requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors. Section 91:.Form of petitions; committee of petitioners, Initiative• petition papers shall cdntain the full text of the proposed ordinance. The signatures to initiative or refer• endum 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 name in ink or indelible pencil and shall 'indicate after his name his place .of residence by street and number, or other description suf- ficient to identify the place. There shall appear on each petition the names and addresses of five (5) electors, who, as a committee of the petitioners, shall be regarded as respon- sible for the circulation and filing of the petition. Attached to each separate petition paper there shall be an affidavit of the circulator thereof that he, and -he only personally circulated the foregoing paper, that it bears a •stated number of signatures,- that all signatures appended' thereto were made in his presence, and that he believes them to be genuine sig- natures of the persons whose names they purport to be.