§ 2.28.030. Initiative petition—Required—Contents—City council vote required.

Whenever there shall be presented to the city council a petition, signed by a number of the qualified city electors equal to thirty percent of the votes cast in the city at the next preceding general city election, praying that a proposed ordinance, to be set out in full in such petition, be submitted to a vote of the electors of the city at a special election to be called for the purpose, the city council shall, within forty days after the filing of the petition, vote upon its adoption, and if it fails of adoption such special election must be called within ninety days after such petition shall have been received by the city council, and such proposed ordinance must be submitted to the vote of the city electors thereat, unless the ordinance shall have been adopted more than thirty days prior to such election.

(Prior code §2-32).