Any ten qualified voters may commence initiative or referendum
proceedings by filing with the Township Secretary 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 Township Secretary shall issue the appropriate petition
blanks to the petitioners' committee.
When a referendum petition is filed with the Township Secretary,
the ordinance sought to be reconsidered shall be suspended from taking
effect. Such suspension shall terminate:
A. When there is a determination of insufficiency of the petition; or
B. When the petitioners' committee withdraws the petition; or
C. Upon certification of the election results, where a majority of the
qualified voters have voted in favor of maintaining the referred ordinance.
Any ordinance proposed under the provisions of Article
XIII of this Charter, whether passed by the Board or adopted by a vote of the electors, cannot be repealed or amended within 2 years of its effective date except by a vote of the electors.