§ 4. COUNCIL CONSIDERATION AND SUBMISSION TO VOTERS.

When the council receives an authorized initiative petition certified by the city clerk to be sufficient, the council shall either:

(a)

Pass the initiated ordinance without amendment within 10 days after the date of the certification to the council; or

(b)

Order an election and submit said initiated ordinance without amendment to a vote of the qualified voters of the city at a regular or special election to be held on the next allowable election date authorized by state law after the certification to the council.

When the council receives an authorized referendum petition certified by the city clerk to be sufficient, the council shall reconsider the referred ordinance, and if upon such reconsideration such ordinance is not repealed, it shall be submitted to the voters at a regular or special election to be held on the next allowable election date authorized by state law after the date of the certification to the council. Special elections on initiated or referred ordinances shall not be held more frequently than once each six months, and no ordinance on the same subject as an initiated ordinance which has been defeated at any election may be initiated by the voters within two years from the date of such election.

Amendment note: Section 4 appears as renumbered by Ord. 20121213-004. The section had previously been amended at the election of May 7, 1994. A former § 4, which concerned the filing, examination, and certification of petitions, was repealed at the election of November 6, 2012.

Source: Ord. No. 20180809-113 , Pt. 7, 8-20-18/election of 11-6-18.