28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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the member of the committee. The committee shall have 15 days after the notice of insufficient valid signatures is sent to file petitions containing additional signatures with the clerk. Within to days after the filing of these additional signatures, the clerk shall transmit all the additional petitions to the county board of elections. The board shall examine all signatures on the additional petitions to determine the number of registered voters of the city who signed the additional petitions. The board shall return the ad- ditional petitions to the clerk ,�vrithin io days after receiving them, together with a statement attesting to the number of registered voters of the city who signed the additional petitions. If the signatures are still insufficient, or if no further petitions have been filed, the clerk shall file the petition in the clerk's office and shall notify, in the manner specified above, each member of the committee of that fact. The final finding of the insufficiency of a petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose. (f) Hearing by Council Committee. When the certificate of the clerk shows the petition and supplemental petition, if any, to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the proposed ordinance or resolution to council at its next regular meeting and council shall at once read and refer the legislation to an appropriate committee. There shall be at least one public hearing on the proposed legislation before the committee to which it is referred. The committee shall then report the proposed legislation to council with its recommendation, not later than the third regular meeting of council fol- lowing that at which the proposed legislation was submitted to council by the clerk. (g) Action by Council. Upon receiving the proposed legislation from the committee council shall at once proceed to consider it and shall take final action on the legislation within 3o days from the date of the committee re- port. (h) Power of Council and Committee. If council rejects the proposed legis- lation or passes it in a form different from that set forth in the petition, the committee of the petitioners may, as provided in this section, require that it be submitted to a vote of the registered voters in its original form, or that it be submitted to a vote of the registered voters with any proposed change, addition or amendment, which was presented in writing either at a public hearing before the committee to which the proposed legislation was referred, or during the consideration of the legislation by council. 31