28-16 Submit the Third Amended Charter to the Electors

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the petition in the clerk's office and shall notify, in the manner specified above, each member of the committee of that fact. (f) Procedure. If the referendum petition is found sufficient, or is rendered sufficient by additional signatures as permitted in this section, the clerk shall certify that fact to council and place the ordinance or resolution on the next council docket for reconsideration. Council shall have 3o days within which to reconsider and at its discretion repeal the ordinance or resolution. If on reconsideration the ordinance or resolution is not entirely repealed, or if council takes no final or other action within the 3o -day pe- riod, council shall submit the ordinance or resolution to a vote of the regis- tered voters. If a primary, special, regular municipal or other general elec- tion is to be held not more than six months after the refusal of council to reconsider the ordinance or resolution, provided the deadline imposed by the county board of elections for filing ballot issues has not passed, the or- dinance or resolution shall then be submitted to a vote of the registered voters. If no election is to be held within that time, council may submit the ordinance or resolution to the registered voters at a special election not sooner than 6o days after the receipt of the clerk's certificate by council and not later than the next primary, regular municipal or other general election, whichever of these elections comes first. If no other provision is made as to the time of submitting the ordinance or resolution to a vote of the registered voters, it shall be submitted at the next primary, regular municipal or other general election. (g) Ballot Form. The ballots used when voting upon any ordinance or reso- lution proposed under this section shall state the title of the ordinance or resolution and be in a form created by the county board of elections in ac- cordance with general law in order to determine whether the registered voters are for the ordinance or resolution or against the ordinance or reso- lution. (h) Majority. If a majority of registered voters shall vote against the ordinance or resolution that is the subject of referendum, it shall be deemed repealed. (i) Enactments not Subject to Referendum. Notwithstanding any provi- sions to the contrary in Section 9.3(a), (k) or 0) or any other provisions of this charter, ordinances or resolutions enacted for the following purposes shall not be subject to referendum: to appropriate money for any lawful purpose; to create, revise or abolish departments or to provide regulations for their governance; to authorize the appointment of employees in any of 35