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?. amendments, and also due to merely the passage of time, this problem will likely recur. In order, therefore, to provide a mechanism to correct, delete or modify such nonsubstantive language effectively without the necessity of submitting each such proposed change to a vote of the people, the following procedure is hereby established which grants Council limited authority by ordinance to correct, delete, or modify nonsubstantive charter language. SECTION 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 Comamission shall specifically, in writing, advise Council of nonsubstantive lanquaqe within the Charter which the Commission believes should be corrected, deleted, or modified. (b) Council action; Review bv 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 languaqe may be effectively corrected, deleted or modified without substantively affectinq the powers qranted 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 languaqe recomnended 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 ordinance shall be read on three separate dates, and the public hearinq 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 eliqible to vote. Upon its passage, the ordinance shall go into effect no earlier than the thirtieth day thereafter. Such ordinance may not be desiqnated by Council as an emergency measure.