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

  § 19.6. Procedures.  

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  • The clerk of the council shall present the petition to the council at its next regular meeting, and thereupon the council shall consider the ordinance. If, within sixty days after the filing of such petition, the ordinance is not repealed or amended as requested in such petition, the clerk of the council, if so requested by a writing signed by a majority of the committee and presented to the clerk of the council within twenty days after the expiration of sixty days, shall present to the clerk of the circuit court of the city, the petition and all copies thereof as one instrument, together with a copy of the ordinance, the repeal or amendment of which is sought. The clerk of the circuit court of the city shall examine the petition and ascertain and certify thereon whether the persons whose names are signed thereto are registered voters of the city, equal in number to fifteen percent of the number of voters duly registered as of January 1 of the year of the petition; provided, however, the clerk of the circuit court shall have the general registrar certify which names on the petition are registered voters before certifying any petition himself. The general registrar and the clerk of the circuit court shall make their certifications within fifteen days of the date of filing. If such signatures do amount to such percentage, the committee shall present the petition to the circuit court of the city, and thereupon the court shall forthwith enter an order calling and fixing a date for holding an election for the purpose of submitting the ordinance to the voters of the city. Thereupon the ordinance shall ipso facto be further suspended from going into effect until the election shall have been held and shall then be deemed repealed or amended upon the approval by a majority of those voting thereon. Any such election shall be held in accordance with Section 24.1-165 of the Code of Virginia. At least ten days before any such election, the clerk of the court shall cause the ordinance to be published once in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the city.

    The ballots used when voting upon such ordinance shall conform in all respects to the ballots required for an initiative election under Section 19.3 hereof, and the method of voting in any such election shall be as prescribed in that section.

    If in any such election the ordinance so referred or submitted be approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon, the ordinance shall, upon the ascertainment and certification of the results of such election as in other special elections, go into effect as an ordinance of the city.

    (Acts 1982, ch. 398)

(Acts 1982, ch. 398)