The voters shall have the power to propose any ordinance except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any initiative ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified voters of the city, equal in number to at least fifty per cent of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal election.
The voters shall have power to approve or reject at the polls any ordinance passed by the council, or submitted by the council to a vote of the voters, except as provided in Section 51, such power being known as the referendum. Ordinances submitted to the council by initiative petition and passed by the council without change shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as the other ordinances. At any time after the enactment by the council of any ordinance which is subject to a referendum, a petition signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least fifty per cent of the number of votes cast at the last preceding regular municipal election may be filed with the city secretary requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the voters.
Initiative petition papers shall contain the full text of the proposed ordinance. The signatures to initiative or referendum petitions need not all be appended to one paper, but to each separate petition there shall be attached a statement of the circulator thereof as provided by this section. Each signer of any petition paper shall sign his name in ink or indelible pencil and shall indicate after his name his place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place. There shall appear in each petition the names and addresses of five voters, who, as a committee of the petitioners, shall be regarded as responsible for the circulation and filing of the petition. Attached to each separate petition paper there shall be an affidavit of the circulator thereof that he, and he only personally circulated the foregoing paper, that it bears a stated number of signatures, that all signatures appended thereto were made in his presence, and that he believes them to be genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be.
All petition papers comprising an initiative or referendum petition shall be assembled and filed with the city secretary as one instrument. Within ten days after a petition is filed, the city secretary shall determine whether each paper of the petition has a proper statement of the circulator and whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number of qualified voters. The city secretary shall declare any petition paper entirely invalid which does not have attached thereto an affidavit signed by the circulator thereof. If a petition paper is found to be signed by more persons than the number of signatures, certified those in excess of the number certified shall be disregarded [sic]. If a petition paper is found to be signed by fewer persons than the number certified, the signatures shall be accepted unless void on other grounds. After completing his examination of the petition, the city secretary shall certify the result thereof to the council at its next regular meeting. If he shall certify that the petition is insufficient he shall set forth in his certificate the particulars in which it is defective and shall at once notify the committee of the petitioners of his findings.
An initiative or referendum petition may be amended at any time within ten days after the notification of insufficiency has been sent by the city secretary, by filing a supplementary petition upon additional papers signed and filed as provided in case of an original petition. The city secretary shall, within five days after such an amendment is filed, make examination of the amended petition and, if the petition be still insufficient, he shall file his certificate to that effect in his office and notify the committee of the petitioners of his findings and no further action shall be had on such insufficient petition. The finding of the insufficiency of a petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.
When a referendum petition, or amended petition as defined in this Charter, has been certified as sufficient by the city secretary, the ordinance specified in the petition shall not go into effect, or further action thereunder shall be suspended if it shall have gone into effect, until and unless approved by the voters, as hereinafter provided.
Whenever the council receives a certified initiative or referendum petition from the city secretary, it shall proceed at once to consider such petition. A proposed initiated ordinance shall be read and provision shall be made for a public hearing upon the proposed ordinance. The council shall take final action on the initiated or referred ordinance not later than sixty days after the date on which such ordinance was submitted to the council by the city secretary. A referred ordinance shall be reconsidered by the council and its final vote upon such reconsideration shall be upon the question, “Shall the ordinance in the referendum petition be repealed?”
If the council shall fail to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition or shall pass it in form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, or if the council fails to repeal a referred ordinance, the proposed or referred ordinance shall be submitted to the voters not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the date the council takes its final vote thereon. The council may, in its discretion, and if no regular election is to be held within such period, shall provide for a special election.
The city secretary shall publish in the official newspaper every initiated or referred ordinance at least 15 days before the date of election on said ordinance. Ordinances submitted to vote of the voters in accordance with the initiative and referendum provisions of this Charter shall be submitted by ballot title, which shall be prepared in all cases by the city attorney. The ballot title may be different from the legal title of any such initiated or referred ordinance and shall be a clear, concise statement, without argument or prejudice, descriptive of the substance of such ordinance, if a paper ballot, shall have below the ballot title the following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated: “FOR THE ORDINANCE” and “AGAINST THE ORDINANCE.” Any number of ordinances may be voted on at the same election and may be submitted on the same ballot, but any paper ballot used for voting thereon shall be for that purpose only. If voting machines are used, the ballot title of any ordinance shall have below it the same two propositions, one above the other or one preceding the other in the order indicated, and the elector shall be given an opportunity to vote for either of the two propositions and thereby to vote for or against the ordinance.
If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed initiative ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereupon be an ordinance of the city. A referred ordinance, which is not approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon, shall thereupon be deemed repealed. If conflicting ordinances are approved by the voters at the same elections, the one receiving the greatest number of affirmative votes shall prevail to the extent of such conflict.
Initiative and referendum ordinances adopted or approved by the voters shall be published, and may be amended or repealed by the council as in the case of other ordinances.
The mayor or any member of the council may be removed from office by recall.
Any voter or group of voters of the city of Cameron may make and file with the city secretary an affidavit containing the name or names of the officer or officers whose removal is sought and a statement of the grounds for removal. The secretary shall thereupon deliver to the voter or voters making such affidavit copies of petition blanks demanding such removal. Such blanks when issued by the city secretary shall bear the signature of that officer and be addressed to the council, and shall be numbered, dated, and indicate the name of person or persons to whom issued. The petition blanks when issued shall bear the name of the officer whose removal is sought. The city secretary shall enter in a record to be kept in his office the name of the voter or voters to whom the petition blanks were issued and the number issued to said person or persons.
The recall petition, to be effective, must be returned and filed with the city secretary within thirty (30) days after the filing of the affidavit required in Section 92, and it must be signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least fifty (50) percent of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal election. Such recall petition shall conform to the provision of Section 82 hereof, so far as same is applicable, and no petition papers shall be accepted as a part of a petition unless it bears the signature of the city secretary, as required in Section 92 hereof. However, in the event the council member or council members sought to be recalled represent single member districts, the only person entitled to sign the recall petition and/or vote for the recall of that particular council member must be residents of the particular ward corresponding with the residence of the council member sought to be recalled.
The city secretary shall at once examine the recall petition and if he finds it complies with the provisions of this Charter, shall within five (5) days submit it to the council with his certificate to that effect and notify the officer sought to be recalled of such action. If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign within five (5) days after such notice the council shall thereupon order and fix a date for holding a recall election. Any such election shall be held not less than thirty days or more than sixty days after the petition has been presented to the council or at the same time as any municipal election held within such period; but if no such municipal election is to be held within such period, the council shall call a special election to be held within the time aforesaid.
Ballots used at recall elections shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) 
With respect to each person whose removal is sought, the question shall be submitted “Shall (name of person) be removed from office of (name of office) by recall?”
(2) 
Immediately below each such question there shall be printed the two following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated:
Yes:
No:
If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election shall be against the recall of the officer named in the ballot, he shall continue in office for the remainder of his unexpired term, subject to recall as before. If a majority of the votes at such election be for the recall of the officer named on the ballot, he shall, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition be deemed removed from office and the vacancy shall be filled by the council as in other vacancies.
No recall petition shall be filed against the mayor or a council member within six months after he takes office nor in respect to an officer subjected to a recall election and not removed thereby, until at least six months after such election.
Should the council fail or refuse to order any of the elections as provided in this article, when all the requirements for such election have been complied with by the petitioning voter in conformity with this article of the Charter, then any Judge of a District Court of Milam County, Texas, upon proper application being made therefor by a voter or group of voters of the city of Cameron, may order such elections and enforce the carrying into effect of the provisions of this article of the Charter.