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Sec. 42-10. - Validation of part-petitions, signatures.
Validation of signatures and part-petitions shall be as provided for in the general laws of the state, unless otherwise provided by this charter or ordinance of council. No part-petition which includes a purported elector's signat...
Sec. 42-11. - Council action by ordinance.
Council action on a petition for any proposed ordinance, referendum, or charter amendment shall be by ordinance. No city officer may consider the subject matter of a petition when determining the legal sufficiency thereof, except ...
Sec. 42-12. - Petitions not subject to veto, referendum.
Any ordinance placing an issue before voters or setting the date of an associated special election shall go into effect and be in force from and after the date of passage, and shall not be submitted to or require the mayor's signa...
Sec. 42-13. - Conflicting questions and issues.
If two or more proposals are approved or adopted at the same election, and the city council finds that any provisions of two or more are in conflict, the proposal receiving the highest number of votes shall prevail. ...
Sec. 42-14. - Effect of petition irregularities after approval by voters.
No vote on a proposal submitted to the electors of the city of Columbus shall be held ineffective or void on account of the insufficiency of the petitions by which such submission of the proposal was procured. ...
Sec. 42-15. - Legal review, action upon approval of initiated question or issue.
Upon approval of an initiated proposal, the city attorney shall review the same. If the city attorney finds any conflicts between the proposal so approved and any applicable local, state or federal law, this charter, the Ohio Cons...
Sec. 42-16. - Conferring special privilege by initiated ordinance or charter amendment.
A) Restraint of trade or commerce being injurious to this state and its citizens, including citizens of the City of Columbus, the power of the initiative shall not be used to ...
Sec. 42-17. - Disclosure Requirements for Certain Initiative Petitions.
A) If a petition committee seeks to use the municipal power of the initiative to pass an ordinance or an amendment to the city charter that would grant or create a monopoly, ...
INITIATED ORDINANCE
Sec. 43. - Ordinance initiated by petition.
The power to initiate an ordinance by petition is hereby reserved to the people of the city of Columbus. Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by registered electors of the city equal to not l...
Sec. 43-1. - Council action on initiated ordinances.
Upon receipt of the report regarding the validation of signatures, the city clerk shall read a summary of the same into the record. Within fourteen days thereafter, the council shall determine the sufficiency of the petition by or...
Sec. 43-2. - Placement of issue on the ballot.
The aforesaid ordinance shall require that such proposed ordinance be submitted at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty nor more than one-hundred-twenty days after its passage. If no such elec...
Sec. 43-3. - Ballot language, initiated ordinance.
In any ordinance placing a proposed ordinance on the ballot, city council shall prescribe a brief summary of the same, which shall be accurate, shall not be misleading, and shall be without material omission or argument. The summa...
Sec. 43-4. - Effect of electoral vote on proposed ordinance.
If such proposed ordinance be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall become an ordinance of the city at the time fixed therein, or upon the completion of the official canvass of the election, whichever is ...
REFERENDUM
Sec. 44. - Referendum initiated by petition.
The power to initiate a referendum by petition on any ordinance, other than those ordinances listed herein, is hereby reserved to the people of the city of Columbus. Any proposed referendum may be submitted to the council by a pet...
Sec. 44-1. - Ordinances not subject to the referendum.
The following shall not be subject to the referendum, but shall go into effect at the time indicated therein: (a) Any annual appropriation ord...
Sec. 44-2. - Effect of referendum petition on subject ordinance.
If a petition for referendum shall be filed as provided for herein regarding an ordinance that shall go into effect thirty days after final passage by the council, such ordinance shall not be operative until the steps indicated he...