§ 19.5. Petition for referendum.

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Subject to the exceptions set out hereinafter in Section 19.8, if at any time within a thirty-day period following the adoption of an ordinance, a petition, signed by voters equal in number to fifteen percent of the number of voters duly registered on January 1 of the year of the petition, be filed with the clerk of the council, requesting that any such ordinance be repealed or amended as stated in the petition, such ordinance shall not become operative until the steps indicated herein shall have been taken or the time allowed for taking such steps shall have elapsed without action. Such petition shall state therein the names and addresses of at least five registered voters, who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition, and who shall constitute a committee of petitioners for the purposes hereinafter stated. Referendum petitions shall contain the text of the ordinance or ordinances, the amendment or repeal of which is sought, and shall contain the proposed amendment, if an amendment is demanded.

(Acts 1982, ch. 398)

(Acts 1982, ch. 398)

                    
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