Any five (5) qualified voters may commence initiative or referendum
proceedings by filing with the township clerk 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 petitioners' committee
is filed the Clerk shall issue the appropriate petition blanks to
the petitioners' committee.
When a referendum petition is filed with the township clerk,
the ordinance sought to be reconsidered shall be suspended from taking
effect. Such suspension shall terminate when:
(1) There is a final determination of insufficiency of the petition;
or
(2) The petitioners' committee withdraws the petition; or
(3) The board of supervisors repeals the ordinance; or
(4) Thirty (30) days have elapsed after a vote of the township on the
ordinance.