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ORDINANCE NO. 9 4- 43 'I INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole AN ORDINANCE PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII OF THE CHARTER OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE PERTAINING TO THE INITIATIVE AND REFEREIVDUM MATTERS WHEREAS, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has recommended that the matters under Article VII dealing with initiative and referendum, certified to the Board of Elections, be certified no later than seventy-five (75) days before the proposed electi_on, and that such petitions be in ink only, to conform the Charter with the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, the current Charter provides for ninety (90) days and does not specify "ink only". NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: SECTION 1. That Article VII of the Charter of the Village of Mayfield, is hereby and herein amended, in Sections 1 and 2 only, to read as follows: ARTICLE VII INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL SECTION 1. INITIATIVE. The electors shall have the power to propose any ordinance or resolution, except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. An initiated ordinance or resolution shall be submitted to Council by a petition signed in ink by qualified electors equal in number to at least ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast at the last regular municipal election, which petition shall be filed with the Clerk of Council. Within twenty (20) days after any such petition has been filed, the Clerk of Council shall determine the sufficiency of the petition, and if found sufficient, shall certify the same to the Council. Thereafter, the Council shall take final action, either enacting, amending, or rejecting the proposed ordinance or resolution, within forty (40) days after it has been certified sufficient by the Clerk of Council. If, within such forty (40) days, Council fails to pass such proposed ordinance or resolution or passes it in some form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, the petitioners,,through the Committee named on such petition may, at the next regular meeting of Council,.request in writing that it be submitted to a vote of the electors. Thereupon, Council shall provide for submitting the petitioned ordinance or resolution to the electors at the next general or regular schedule primary or special municipal election occurring more than seventy- five (7a days after the certification of such petition by the