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SEC. 2. CORRECTING, DELETING, MODIFYING NONSUBSTANTIVE CHARTER LANGUAGE. (a) Charter Review Commission Recommendations. In making its recommendations to Council prescribed in Article XIV of this Charter, the Charter Review Commission shall specifically in writing, advise Council of nonsubstantive language within the Charter which the Commission believes should be corrected, deleted, or modified. (b) Council Action; Review by Director of Law; Public Hearing Council, upon receiving the Charter Review Commission's advice concerning nonsubstantive charter language, shall request from the Director of Law a written opinion as to whether the Charter language in question is, in fact, nonsubstantive, and whether the language may be effectively corrected, deleted or modified without substantively affecting the powers granted to or the duties imposed upon the City by the Charter. Upon receiving an affirmative reply from the Director of Law as to each of these areas of inquiry, Council may, by ordinance, make the corrections, deletions, or modifications of nonsubstantive Charter language recommended by the Charter Review Commission. In enacting such legislation, Council shall, in addition to the requirements set forth in Article IV, Section 11 of this Charter, advertise such ordinance by title and text, in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, on three separate dates with at least two weeks separating each publication. Each publication shall also contain the date, time and location of a public hearing concerning the ordinance, which shall occur no later than thirty days after, and no earlier than five days before the last date of publication. Said ordinances shall be read on three separate dates, and the public hearing upon the ordinance shall be held on a date between the first and third readings. The ordinance shall not be passed under suspension of any rule of Council, and shall be approved, if at all, by a vote of at least three fourths (3/4) of the members of Council eligible to vote. Upon its passage, the ordinance shall go into effect no earlier than the thirtieth day thereafter. Such ordinance may not be designated by Council as an emergency measure. In the event that the Director of Law renders an opinion that all or some of the recommendations of the Charter Review Commission involve substantive charter language or language which may not be corrected, deleted or modified without substantively affecting powers granted to or duties imposed upon the City, then Council, consistent with the procedure set forth above may introduce and enact legislation only upon those recommendations of the Charter Review Commission which the Director of Law determines involve nonsubstantive charter language and language which may be corrected, deleted, or modified without substantively affecting powers granted to or duties imposed upon the City. (c) The Charter of the City shall from time to time, when recodified or republished, be amended so that all gender references shall be modified or rewritten, so as to be gender neutral. SECTION 2. If the foregoing proposal receives the affirmative vote of a majority of the 2