Any five qualified voters may begin initiative or referendum
proceedings by filing with the township manager an affidavit stating
that they will constitute the petitioners' committee, stating
their names and addresses and the address to which all notices to
the committee are to be sent. The affidavit shall also include the
full text of the proposed ordinance or cite the ordinance sought to
be reconsidered. The petitioners' committee shall be responsible
for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form within 60
days after filing the committee's affidavit.
Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioners' committee
is filed, the township manager shall issue the appropriate petition
blanks to the committee.
When a referendum petition is filed with the township manager,
the ordinance sought to be reconsidered shall be suspended from taking
effect. Such suspension shall end when:
1. There is a final determination of the insufficiency of the petition;
or
2. The petitioners' committee withdraws the petition; or
3. The Council repeals the ordinance; or
4. Thirty days have elapsed after a vote of the township on the ordinance.