§ 34. Power of initiative.

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The electors shall have power to initiate any ordinance, except ordinances appropriating money, levying a tax, granting a franchise, or fixing public utility rates, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls; provided, however, that the foregoing limitations on initiated ordinances shall not apply to any ordinance initiated pursuant to the provisions of Article I, Section 3, Paragraph 12 of this Charter. Any initiated ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified electors of the city equal in number to ten per cent of the electors qualified to vote at the time of the last regular municipal election. In addition to the ordinances excepted above, ordinances zoning or rezoning property shall not be subject to this power.

(Ord. No. 85965, § 1 (Prop. 1), 5-5-97)

                    
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