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23 NORTH OLMSTED CHARTER Where no special provision is made in this Charter governing general, primary or special elections, registration and the conduct of such elections, the provisions of the general law of the State of Ohio shall control. ARTICLE X INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL SEC. 1. INITIATIVE . The electors shall have the power to propose any ordinance or resolution excepting an ordinance appropriating money, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. An initiated ordinance or resolution shall be sub- mitted to Council by a petition signed by at least ten percent (10%) of the electors voting at the last regular municipal election. When so submitted, the Clerk of the Council shall determine the sufficiency and if sufficient the Council shall take final action, either enacting, amending, or rejecting the proposed ordinance, within forty (40) days after submission. If 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 by the next regular meeting of the Council re- quest 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 municipal election occurring more than ninety (90) days after the ~_ filing of such petition, but if such petition is signed by at least twenty percent (20%) of such electors, the date of the election may be fixed therein, which may be a special election to be held at any time more than ninety (90) days after the filing of such petition. SEC. 2. REFERENDUM. Within thirty (30) days after the enactment by Council, of any ordinance or resolution which is subject to a referendum under the laws of the State of Ohio, a petition signed by no less than ten percent (10%) of the total electors voting at the last regular municipal election, may be filed with the Council, requesting the ordinance or resolution be re- pealed, or submitted to a vote of the electors. When said petition is filed the Clerk of the Council shall first ascertain the sufficiency of the petition, and, if found sufficient, the Council shall thereupon, within thirty (30) days of the filing of such petition reconsider such ordinance or resolution. If Council fails to repeal said ordinance or resolution within thirty (30) days the Council shall submit to a vote of the electors at the next general or regular municipal election occurring more than ninety (90) days after the filing of such petition, but if such petition is signed by at-least twenty percent (20°Io) of such electors, the date of the election may be fixed therein, which may be a special election to be held at any time more than ninety (90) days after the filing of such petition. SEC. 3. RECALL. Electors shall have the power to remove from office by recall election, any elected official of the municipality. After an elected official has served six months of his term, a petition demanding his recall and removal, may be filed with the Clerk of Council. Such '}'" of the total electors votin petition shall be signed by at least twenty-five percent (25%) g at the last preceding regular municipal election. If the Clerk shall find the petition