30 - Adoption of Voter-Approved Amendments to the City's Home Rule Charter

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referendum, except in cases of bond ordinances. and ordinances making the annual tax levy, zonine. annexation utility rates ersonnel and adminis r tive_mat t rs or in an - where n w r a court of p_rjgtpj ktkirs deterfflined that the referred ordin nce has been removed from the field of referendum. Ordinances submitted to the council by initiative petition and passed by the council without change shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances. Within 20 days after the enactment by the council of any ordinance that is subject to a referendum, a petition signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least 25 percent of the number of votes cast in the cumulative seven districts in the last contested general election for each district may be filed with the city clerk requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the voters. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 54); Ordinance No. 2022-084 enacted 11/14/2022, Prop. T, Ordinance No. 2022-_ enacted 12/12/2022. § a6M Form of petition; committee of petitioners. Initiative petition papers shall contain the full text of the proposed ordinance. The signatures to initiative or referendum 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 or her name in ink or indelible pencil and shall indicate after his or her name his or her place of residence, by street and number or other description sufficient to identify the place. There shall appear on each petition the names and addresses of five voters, who, as a committee of the petitioners, shall be regarded as responsible 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 or she.„ and he or she only, personally circulated the foregoing paper, that it bears a stated number of signatures, that all signatures appended thereto were made in his or her presence, and that he or she believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 1) § 87403 Filing, examination and certification of petitions. All petition papers comprising an initiative or referendum petition shall be assembled and filed with the city clerk as one instrument. Within ten days after the petition is filed, the city clerk shall determine whether each paper of the petition has a proper statement of the circulator and whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number of qualified voters. The city clerk shall declare any petition paper entirely invalid which does not have attached thereto an affidavit signed by the circulator thereof. If a petition paper is found to be signed by more persons than the number of signatures certified by the circulator, the last signatures in excess of the number certified shall be disregarded. If a petition paper is found to be signed by fewer persons than the number certified, the signature shall be accepted unless void on other grounds. After completing his or her examination of the petition, the city clerk shall certify the result thereof to the council at its next regular meeting. If he or she shall certify that the petition is insufficient he or she shall set forth in his certificate the particulars in which it is defective and shall at once notify the committee of the petitioners of his findings. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 1)