1968 Recommendations to Change Fiscal Year

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0 Hon. Mayor, et al - 2 July 9, 1968 Each such proposed amendment, if approved by the majority of the qualified voters voting at said election, shall become a part of the charter of said city. No amendment shall be considered adopted until an official order has been entered upon the records of said city by the governing body thereof declaring the same adopted." --Acts 1913cc p. 307; Acts 1961, 57th Leg., p. 1108, ch. 500, 51. Section .132 of the Home Rule Charter reads as follows: "Section 132-Amendingthe charter "Amendments to this charter may be framed and submitted to the electors of the city by a charter commission in the manner provided by law for framing and submitting a new charter. Amend- ments may also be proposed and submitted by ordinance, passed by a majority vote of the full membership of the Commission, or by a petition signed by not less than 25% of the number of those who voted at the last regular municipal election, provided, how- ever, that in the latter case the petition must bear the signa- tures of at least ten per centum (10%) of the qualified voters of the city. When a charter amendment petition shall have been filed with the Commission in conformity with the provisions of this charter as to petitions for initiated ordinances, the Commission shall forthwith provide by ordinance for submitting such proposed amendments to a vote of the electors. Any ordi- nance for submitting a charter amendment to the electors shall provide that such amendment be submitted at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty days nor more than one hundred.and twenty days after the passage of the ordinance; otherwise it shall provide for the submission of the amendment at a special election to be called and held withi the time aforesaid. Not less than thirty days prior to such election the city clerk shall mail a copy of the proposed amend- ment or amendments to each qualified voter in said city as appears from the latest rolls of the tax collector. If a proposed amendment be approved by majority of the electors voting there- on, it shall become a part of the charter at the time fixed therein. Each amendment shall be confined to one subject; and when more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately."