A. 
Initiative. The qualified voters of the Township shall have power to propose ordinances to the Council. If the Council fails to adopt without any change in substance an ordinance so proposed, the electorate shall have the opportunity to adopt or reject it at an election. Such power shall not extend to the budget or capital program or any ordinance relating to appropriation of money, levy of taxes or salaries of Township officers or employees.
B. 
Referendum. The qualified voters of the Township shall have power to require reconsideration by the Council of any adopted ordinance and, if the Council fails to repeal an ordinance so reconsidered, to approve or reject it at an election, provided that such power shall not extend to the budget or capital program or ordinances relating to appropriation of money or levy of taxes.
Any five qualified voters may commence initiative or referendum proceedings by filing with the Manager an affidavit stating they will constitute the Petitioners' Committee and be responsible for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and addresses and specifying the address to which all notices to the Committee are to be sent, and setting out in full the proposed initiative ordinance or citing the ordinance sought to be reconsidered. Promptly after the affidavit of the Petitioner's Committee is filed, the Manager shall have issued the appropriate petition blanks to the Petitioners' Committee.
A. 
Number of signatures. Initiative and referendum petitions must be signed by qualified voters of the Township in number to at least 10% of the total number of qualified voters registered to vote at the last regular Township election.
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Form and content. All papers of a petition shall be uniform in size and style and shall be assembled as one instrument for filing. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by the address of the person signing. Petitions shall contain or have attached thereto throughout their circulation the ordinance proposed or the title and a summary of the ordinance sought to be reconsidered.
C. 
Affidavit of circulator. Each paper of a petition shall have attached to it when filed an affidavit executed by the circulator thereof stating that he personally circulated the paper, the number of signatures thereon, that all signatures were affixed in his presence, that he believes them to be genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be, and that each signer had an opportunity before signing to read the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered.
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Time for filing referendum petitions. Referendum petitions must be filed within 30 days after adoption by Council of the ordinance sought to be reconsidered.
Within 25 days after the petition is filed, the Manager shall complete a certificate as to its sufficiency, specifying, if it is insufficient, the particulars wherein it is defective and shall promptly send a copy of the certificate to the Petitioners' Committee by registered mail. A petition certified insufficient for lack of the required number of valid signatures may be amended once if the Petitioners' Committee files a notice of intention to amend it with the Manager within two days after receiving the copy of his certificate and files a supplementary petition upon additional papers within 10 days after receiving the copy of such certificate. Such supplementary petition shall comply with the requirements of Subsections B and C of Section 703, and within five days after it is filed, the Manager shall complete a certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition as amended and promptly send a copy of such certificate to the Petitioners' Committee by registered mail as in the case of an original petition. If a petition or amended petition is certified insufficient and the Petitioners' Committee does not elect to amend it in the time required, the Manager shall promptly present his certificate to the Council and the certificate shall then be a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.
When a referendum petition is received by the Manager, he shall so notify the Council and the ordinance specified in the petition shall not become effective until the sufficiency of the petition has been determined. If the petition is finally determined to be insufficient under Section 704, the ordinance shall become effective upon certification to the Council of this insufficiency or 31 days after enactment of the ordinance, whichever is later. If the petition is certified sufficient, the ordinance shall be placed in suspension and shall not become effective unless or until the suspension is removed. Such suspension shall terminate when the results of the election on the ordinance in question are certified, or the Council repeals the ordinance.
When an initiative or referendum petition has been certified, the Council shall promptly consider the proposed initiative ordinance in the manner provided in this Charter or reconsider the referred ordinance by voting its repeal. If the Council fails to adopt a proposed initiative ordinance without any change in substance within 30 days or fails to repeal the referred ordinance within 30 days after the date the petition was finally determined sufficient, the Manager shall file the ordinance with the County Election Board to be submitted to the voters of the Township at the next election, primary, municipal or general, occurring not less than 90 days after the petition is certified. If the Council adopts the initiative ordinance without change in substance further proceedings may, be halted by filing with the Manager a concurrence signed by at least four members of the Petitioners' Committee.
A. 
Initiative. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on a proposed initiative ordinance vote in its favor, it shall be considered adopted upon certification of the election results and shall be treated in all respects in the same manner as ordinances of the same kind adopted by the Council. If conflicting ordinances are approved at the same election, the one receiving the greater number of affirmative votes shall prevail to the extent of such conflict.
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Referendum. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on a referred ordinance vote against it, it shall be considered repealed upon certification of the election results.