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8851_.LLA PORTE, TEXAS: Charter_'.10-7-69-:__ 198 shall not prejudice• the filing. of a new petition for the saMe purpose. ' Section 94. - Effect of certification of refere>n". petltlesq.- . When a referendum " petition, dr amended ipetition an der fined in section 98 of this charter, has basin certi!W A0 sufficient by the city clerk, the ordinance specified ip tM petition shall not go into effect, or further action thereundo ahalI• be suspended if it shall have gone into eft'ect, until• aM unless approved by the electors, as hereinafter provided. " Section 95. Consideration by commission. Whenever the commission receives a certified initiative dr referendum petition from the city clerk it shall, proceed at once to consider such petition. A proposed initiative ordi- nance shalt - be read and provision shall W made -for it public hearing upon the proposed ordinance. The commission shall take final action on the ordinance not later than sixty (60) days after the date on which such ordinance was submitted to the commission by the city eletPk. A referred ordinance dhall be reconsidered by the commission and its final vote • upon such reconsideration shall be upon the question, "Shall the ordinance in the referendum petition be repealed?" Section 96. Submission to electors. If the commission shall fail to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition or shall pass it in a form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, or if the commission fails to repeal a referred ordinance, the proposed or referred ordinance shall. be submitted to the electors not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days from the date and the commission takes its final vote thereon. The commission may, in its discretion, and if no regular election is to beheld within such period shall, provide for a special ,election. Section 97.. Form of ballot for initiated and referred ordi- nances. ,Ordinances "submitted to vote of the electors in accordance with the initiative and referendum provisions of this charts+r shall be submitted by ballot title, which shall be prepared in all cases by the city attorney. The ballot title may Le dif- ferent from the legal title of any such initiated or referred ordinance and shall be a clear, concise statement, without argument or prejudice, descriptive of the substance of such ordinance, if a paper ballot, shall have below the ballot title the following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated: "FOR THE ORDINANCE" and "AGAINST THE ORDINANCE." Any number of ordinances may be voted on at the same election and may be submitted on the same ballot, but any paper ballot used for voting thereon shall be for that purpose only. If voting machines are used, the ballot title of any ordinance shall have below it the same two (2) proposi- tions, one above the other or 'one preceding the other in the order indicated, and the elector shall be given an opportunity, to vote for either of the two (2) propositions and thereby "to vote for or against the ordinance.