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 Lynchburg
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER
 Chapter 4. ELECTIONS, OATHS OF OFFICE AND BONDS

  § 19.1. Procedure.  

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  • Subject to the exceptions set out hereinafter in Section 19.8, any proposed ordinance or ordinances, including ordinances for the repeal or amendment of an existing ordinance, may be submitted to the council by petition signed by voters equal in number to ten percent of the number of voters duly registered on January 1 of the year of the petition.

    The execution of the petition by a registered voter shall be acknowledged by him, or it may be proved by the oath of a witness who shall swear on information and belief that he knows the registered voter and that the petition was signed by the registered voter in the presence of the witness. The petition may be in the form of separate sheets, each sheet containing at the top thereof the petition as set forth above, and when bound together and offered for filing, shall be deemed to constitute one petition. Such petition shall contain the proposed ordinance in full, and shall have appended thereto or written thereon the names and addresses of at least five voters who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition, and who shall constitute a committee of petitioners for the purposes hereinafter stated. An affidavit signed by the committee of petitioners shall be attached to the petition stating the date the petition was first circulated.

    All papers comprising the petition shall be assembled and filed with the clerk of the council, as one instrument, within 120 days from the date stated in the affidavit that the petition was first circulated. Within fifteen days of the date the petition is filed, the clerk shall have the general registrar of the city certify that the petition has the number of signatures of registered voters required to meet the above mentioned percentage. After the general registrar has certified that the number of signatures of registered voters meets the required percentage, the clerk shall submit the petition to the council at its next regular meeting, and provisions shall be made for public hearing upon the proposed ordinance.

    (Acts 1982, ch. 398)

(Acts 1982, ch. 398)