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Mounds View Charter Commission Date7/12/2007 Resolution 2007-01e Final Markup format Page 4 of 6 placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within one hundred twenty 149 (120) calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a regular primary 150 election and a regular general election or forty (40) calendar days after a regular general election. If there 151 is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within sixty (60) calendar days prior to 152 a regular general election. 153 154 Section 5.05.06. Initiative*. Any An ordinance may be proposed by a petition which shall state at 155 the head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance. If the Council passes the 156 proposed ordinance with amendments, and a majority of the sponsoring committee do not disapprove the 157 amended form by a statement filed with the Clerk-Administrator within ten days of its passage by the 158 Council, the ordinance need not be submitted to the voters. If the Council fails to enact the ordinance in a 159 form acceptable to the majority of the sponsoring committee within sixty days after the final determination of 160 sufficiency of the petition, the ordinance as originally proposed shall be placed on the ballot at the next 161 election occurring in the City. If no election is to occur within 120 days after the filing of the petition, the 162 Council shall call a special election on the ordinance to be held within such period.. The exact text of the 163 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The 164 petition shall be filed in the Clerk-Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one 165 hundred eighty (180) calendar days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. 166 If a petition for initiative is determined to be frivolous, it is prohibited from being repeated within one 167 hundred eighty (180) calendar days of the determination. Within sixty (60) calendar days after final 168 determination of the petition’s sufficiency according to Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this Charter, the Council 169 must either adopt an ordinance according to Subdivisions 1 or 2 or pass a resolution to place the measure 170 on a ballot as provided in Subdivision 3. Any amendment to the proposed ordinance must proceed 171 according to Subdivision 2 of this section. If an ordinance is adopted, it shall become effective thirty (30) 172 calendar days after publication unless the ordinance specifies a later effective date. If the vote for adoption 173 fails, the ordinance must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If a ballot measure for a 174 proposed ordinance fails the same measure is prohibited from being brought forward again as an initiative 175 within one hundred eighty (180) calendar days of the election certification. Failure of a ballot measure for 176 a proposed ordinance shall not prevent the Council from proposing a similar ordinance. 177 178 Subdivision 1. If the Council elects to adopt the ordinance as provided by the petition without 179 amendment, they shall proceed in accordance with Section 3.05 of this Charter. During this adoption 180 process, the ordinance cannot be amended but, if adopted, is subject to the referendum process as defined 181 in Section 5.07. 182 183 Subdivision 2. If an amendment to the ordinance is proposed by a majority vote of the Council, it 184 must be presented to the Sponsoring Committee prior to the first reading of the proposed ordinance. The 185 Sponsoring Committee shall have fourteen (14) calendar days from the receipt of the amended proposed 186 ordinance to disapprove the amendment by majority vote, and file a statement with the Clerk-187 Administrator. Upon receipt of a statement of disapproval from the Sponsoring Committee, the Council 188 must either adopt the proposed ordinance, according to Subdivision 1 of this section, or place the 189 ordinance, as presented by the Sponsoring Committee, on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If the 190 Sponsoring Committee does not submit a statement of disapproval, the ordinance can proceed, as 191 amended, according to Section 3.05 with no further amendments and, if adopted, is subject to the 192 referendum process as defined in Section 5.07 of this Charter. If the vote for adoption fails, the ordinance, 193 as amended, must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If an amended ordinance is 194 approved at a first reading, the Council may choose to submit the ordinance, as amended, as a ballot 195 measure. 196