REFERENDUM

Generally.

167. Section 10. No ordinance, except an emergency ordinance, shall take effect before fifteen (15) days after its final passage. If, within said fifteen (15) days, one hundred (100) electors of the city shall file a notice hi writing with the clerk, of their intention to circulate a petition for submitting said ordinance to the electors for their adoption or rejection as herein provided, then said ordinance shall not become effective until thirty (30) days after its final passage by the council; provided that if petitions containing the requisite number of signatures required herein are not filed in accordance with such written notice within said thirty (30) days, then said ordinance shall become effective after the expiration of said thirty (30) day period. If within said thirty (30) days, a petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number to at least ten (10) per centum of the total number of votes cast for all candidates for the office of mayor, at the last preceding general municipal election, at which a mayor was elected, be presented to the council, requesting that such ordinance be repealed by the council or be submitted to the qualified electors for their approval or rejection, the same shall thereupon and thereby be suspended from taking effect; and the council shall immediately reconsider such ordinance. If the same be not entirely repealed, the council shall submit it, by the method provided in this charter, to a vote of the qualified electors of the city, either at the next general municipal election or at a special election, which may in its discretion be called by it for that purpose, and such ordinances shall not take effect unless a majority of the qualified electors voting on the same at such election shall vote La favor thereof.

Petition, etc.

168. Section 11. The provisions of this chapter relative to the form and manner of signing initiative petitions, the filing, examination, certification and sufficiency thereof, the presentation thereof to the council by the city clerk, the form of ballot, the manner of conducting elections, the canvassing of the votes and the certification of the results, for election in the case of an ordinance initiated by petition, shall apply to petitions for a referendum of an ordinance and the submission of such ordinance to the electors.