The electors shall have power to propose any ordinance, except an ordinance appropriating money or authorizing the levy of taxes. The electors shall also have the power to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any initiated ordinance must be filed with the City Manager by a petition signed by qualified electors of the City equal in number to at least fifteen percent (15%) of the registered voters at the last regular municipal election.
The electors 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 electors, except an ordinance making the annual tax levy, or an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds which have been authorized by a vote of the people, or an ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds, 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 other ordinances. Within twenty (20) days after the enactment by the Council of any ordinance which is subject to a referendum, a petition signed by qualified electors of the City equal in number to at least fifteen percent of the registered voters at the last preceding regular municipal election may be filed with the City Manager requesting that any such ordinance be either repealed or submitted to a vote of the electors.
Initiative and Referendum petition papers shall contain the full text of the proposed or disposed ordinance. Each signer of any such petition paper shall sign his name in ink and shall indicate place of residence after his name. 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 the signatures appended thereto were made in his presence, and that he believes them to be the 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 Manager as one [instrument;] within twenty (20) days after a petition is filed, the City Manager 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 registered voters. The City Manager shall certify the results thereof to the Council at its next regular meeting. If the City Manager certifies the petition is insufficient, he shall at once notify the committee of the petitioners of his findings. The committee may amend the petition any time in the next ten days, and the City Manager shall in the next five days determine if the Amendment is in order and notify the committee of the petitioners of his findings. No further action shall be taken on an insufficient petition; the findings of the insufficiency of a petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.
If the Council shall fail to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition, or shall pass it in a form different from that set forth in the petition therefore, or if the Council fails to reset forth in the petition therefore [sic], or if the Council fails to repeal a referred ordinance, the proposed or referred ordinance shall be the subject of a city election by in accordance with this Charter not less than thirty (30) days nor more than 180 days from the date the Council takes final vote thereon.
The results of the election shall be canvassed and announced not later than ten (10) days after the election. Initiatives and referendum ordinances adopted or approved by the electors shall be published not more than one week after such adoption. The Council shall then amend, appeal or adopt the initiative or referendum in accordance with the election results.
Before the question of recall of such officer shall be submitted to the registered voters of the City, a petition demanding such question to be so submitted shall first be filed with the person performing the duties of City Manager; said petition shall be signed by registered voters of the City equal in number to at least thirty percent of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal election of the City, but in no event less than 250 such petitioners. Each signed [signer] of such recall petition shall personally sign his name thereto in ink or indelible pencil, and shall write after his name his place of residence, giving name of street and number, or place of residence, and shall also write thereon the day, the month and the year his signature was affixed.
The recall petition mentioned above must be addressed to the City Council of Denver City, must distinctly and specifically point out the ground or grounds upon such petition for removal is predicated, and, if there be more than one ground, such as for incompetence, misconduct or malfeasance in office, shall specifically state each ground with such certainty as to give the officer sought to be removed notice of the matters and things with which he is charged. The signatures shall be verified by oath in the following form:
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF YOAKUM
I, ________________, being first duly sworn, on oath depose and say that I am one of the signers of the above petition: that I personally circulated said petition, and that each of the signatures appearing thereon was made in my presence on the day and date it purports to have been made, and I solemnly swear that the same are the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be.
___________________
Sworn to and subscribed to before this ________________day of ________________, 19________________.
_____________________________
Notary Public in and for
Yoakum County, Texas.
The petition may consist of one or more copies, or subscription list, circulated separately, and the signatures thereto may be upon the paper or papers containing the form of petition, or upon other papers attached thereto. Verifications provided for in the next preceding paragraph of this Section may be made by one or more petitioners, and the several parts or copies of the petition may be filed separately and by different persons, but no signature to such petition shall remain effective or be counted which is placed thereon more than forty-five days prior to the filing of such petition or petitions with the person performing the duties of City Manager. All papers comprising a recall petition shall be filed with the person performing the duties of the City Manager on the same day, and the said Manager shall immediately notify, in writing, the officer so sought to be removed, by mailing such notice to his Denver City, Texas address.
Within five working days, holidays and weekends excluded, after the date of the filing of the papers constituting the recall petition, the person performing the duties of City Manager shall present such petition to the City Council of the City of Denver City.
The officer whose removal is sought may, within five days after such recall petition has been presented to the City Council, request that a public hearing be held to permit him to present facts pertinent to the charges specified in the recall petition. In this event, the City Council shall order such public hearing to be held not less than five days nor more than fifteen days after receiving such request for a public hearing.
If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign then it shall become the duty of the City Council to order an elect on and fix a date for holding such recall election, the date of which election shall be not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty-five days from the date such petition was presented to the City Council, or from the date of public hearing if one was held, whichever is later.
Ballots used at recall elections shall conform to the following requirements:
A. 
With respect to each person whose removal is sought, the question shall be submitted:
“Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of (name of office) by recall?”
B. 
Immediately below each such question there shall be printed the two following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated:
“Yes”
Circle one
“No”
Answer
If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election shall be against the recall of the person named on 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 cast at such an election be for the recall of the person named on the ballot, he shall be deemed removed from office, and the vacancy shall be filled as vacancies on the City Council are filled.
No recall petition shall be filed against any officer of the City of Denver City within six months after his election, nor within six months after an election for such officer’s recall.
In case all of the requirements of this Charter shall have been met and the City Council shall fail or refuse to receive the recall, initiative or referendum petition, or order such recall election, or discharge any other duties imposed upon said City Council by the provisions of this Charter with reference to such recall, initiative, or referendum, then the County Judge of Yoakum County, Texas shall discharge any of such duties herein provided to be discharged by the person performing the duties of the City Manager or by the City Council.