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Mounds View Charter Commission Resolution 2007-0 l e Final Markup format Date7/12/2007 Page 4 of 6 149 placing the measure on the ballot and calling for a special election to be held within one hundred twenty 150 (120) calendar days of said meeting. However, no special elections can be held between a regular primary 151 election and a regular general election or forty (40) calendar days after a regular general election. If there 152 is no regular primary election then no special election shall be held within sixty (60) calendar days prior to 153 a regular general election. 154 155 Section 5.05.06. Initiative*. An ordinance may be proposed by a -petition which shall state at 156 the head of each page or attached thereto the exact text of the proposed ordinance. If the Council passes the 157 proposed ordinance with amendments, and a majority of the sponsoring committee do not disapprove the 158 amended form by a statement filed with the Clerk Administrator within ten days of its passage by the 159 Council, the ordinance need not be submitted to the voters. If the Council fails to enact the ordinance in a 160 form acceptable to the majority of the sponsoring committee within sixty days after the final determination of 161 sufficiency of the petition, the ordinance as originally proposed shall be placed on the ballot at the next 162 election occurring in the City. If no election is to occur within 120 days after the filing of the petition, the 163 Council shall call a special election on the ordinance to be held within such period.. The exact text of the 164 proposed ordinance must be stated at the head of each page of the petition or attached thereto. The 165 petition shall be filed in the Clerk -Administrator's office prior to circulation and shall be valid for one 166 hundred eighty (180) calendar days during which time a completed petition with signatures must be filed. 167 If a petition for initiative is determined to be frivolous, it is prohibited from being repeated within one 168 hundred eighty (180) calendar days of the determination. Within sixty (60) calendar days after final 169 determination of the petition's sufficiency according to Section 5.03 and 5.04 of this Charter, the Council 170 must either adopt an ordinance according to Subdivisions 1 or 2 or pass a resolution to place the measure 171 on a ballot as provided in Subdivision 3. Any amendment to the proposed ordinance must proceed 172 according to Subdivision 2 of this section. If an ordinance is adopted, it shall become effective thirty (30) 173 calendar days after publication unless the ordinance specifies a later effective date. If the vote for adoption 174 fails, the ordinance must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If a ballot measure for a 175 proposed ordinance fails the same measure is prohibited from being brought forward again as an initiative 176 within one hundred eighty (180) calendar days of the election certification. Failure of a ballot measure for 177 a proposed ordinance shall not prevent the Council from proposing a similar ordinance. 178 179 Subdivision 1. If the Council elects to adopt the ordinance as provided by the petition without 180 amendment, they shall proceed in accordance with Section 3.05 of this Charter. During this adoption 181 process, the ordinance cannot be amended but, if adopted, is subject to the referendum process as defined 182 in Section 5.07. 183 184 Subdivision 2. If an amendment to the ordinance is proposed by a majority vote of the Council, it 185 must be presented to the Sponsoring Committee prior to the first reading of the proposed ordinance. The 186 Sponsoring Committee shall have fourteen (14) calendar days from the receipt of the amended proposed 187 ordinance to disapprove the amendment by majority vote, and file a statement with the Clerk- 188 Administrator. Upon receipt of a statement of disapproval from the Sponsoring Committee, the Council 189 must either adopt the proposed ordinance, according to Subdivision 1 of this section, or place the 190 ordinance, as presented by the Sponsoring Committee, on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If the 191 Sponsoring Committee does not submit a statement of disapproval, the ordinance can proceed, as 192 amended, according to Section 3.05 with no further amendments and, if adopted, is subject to the 193 referendum process as defined in Section 5.07 of this Charter. If the vote for adoption fails, the ordinance, 194 as amended, must be placed on the ballot as provided in Section 5.05. If an amended ordinance is 195 approved at a first reading, the Council may choose to submit the ordinance, as amended, as a ballot 196 measure.