§ 4.05. Council consideration and submission to voters.

When the council receives an authorized initiative petition certified in writing by the city secretary to be sufficient, the council shall (a) pass the initiated ordinance without amendment within thirty (30) days after the date of presentation of written certification to the council; or (b) submit said initiated ordinance without amendment to a vote of the qualified voters of the city at a regular or special election to be held on the first election day permitted by law which is not less than thirty (30) days after the date of presentation of written certification to the council; or (c) submit to a vote of the qualified voters of the city said initiated ordinance, without amendment, and an alternative ordinance on the same subject proposed by the council. Should both such ordinances be approved by a majority of the votes cast at such election, the ordinance receiving the higher number of votes shall become effective as an ordinance of the city; the other ordinance shall be deemed rejected and shall not become effective.

When the council receives an authorized referendum petition certified in writing by the city secretary to be sufficient, the council shall reconsider the referred ordinance. If upon reconsideration such ordinance is not repealed within thirty (30) days, it shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the city at a regular or special election to be held on the first election day permitted by law which is not less than thirty (30) days after the date of presentation of written certification to the council.

Special elections on initiated or referred ordinances shall not be held more frequently than once each six months. No ordinance on the same subject as an initiated ordinance which has been defeated or on the same subject as a referred ordinance which has been approved at any election may be initiated or referred by the voters within two years from the date of such election.