The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-07
THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES

THE BRIDGEPORT TIMEE 1 mittee of petitioners or a majority of l them stating whether the petition is | intended to be fifteen per cent petition
 | Sec 23. Within ten days after the | filing of the petition the town clerk
 shall ascertain by examination the number of electors whose signatures
 are appended and whether this num-
 Der is at least fiteen per cent. or twenty-five per cent of the total num- lber of electors who were entitled to cast their votes at the last regular town election, and he shall attach to I'said petition his certificate showing the result of examination. If, by the
 clerks certificate, of which notice in writing shall be given to one or more of the persons designated, the peti- ton is shown to be insufficient it may be amended within ten days by filing supplementary petition papers with
 additional signatures. The town clerk
 shall within ten days after such
 amendment make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certi- ficate shall show the same to be in sufficient he shall file the petition in
 his office and shall notify each mem
 Der of the committee. The final find-
 ing of the insuff1ciency of a petition shall not prejudice the filing of a
 new petition for the same purpose
 Sec. 24. If the petition shall be
 found to be sufficient the town clerk shall certify and submit the pro-
 posed measure to the council who , shall at once read and refer the same
 to an appropriate committee Pro-
 vision shall be made for public hear
 ings upon the proposed measure be-
 fore the committee. Thereafter the
 committee shall report the proposed
 measure to the council, with it's rec ommendation, not later than sixty
 days after the date upon which such
 measure was submitted, to the coun-
 cil by the clerk. Upon receiving the
 proposed measure from the commit tee the council shall at once proceed , to consider it and shall. take final ac-
 tion withi- thirty days from the date
 of such committee report
 Sec 25. If the council shall fail to pass thu measure, or shall pass it in a form different from that set forth in the petition, then if the petition was a twenty-five per cent. petition" the proposed measure shall be sub mitted by the couaci1 to the vote of the electors at the next election occur ring not less than thirty days after the date of the final action by the council, and if no election is to be held within six months from such date, then the council shall call a special election to be held not less than thirty nor more than forty-ive days from such date. But if the peti- tion was a fifteen per cent. petition the proposed measure shall be sub- mitted in the case of a twenty five per cent. petition" except that no special election shall be called un- less within thirty days after the final action by the council on the proposed measure a supplementary petition shall be filed with the clerk signed by sufficient mum. CT of additional elec- tors asking for the submission of the proposed measure so that the original petition combined with such supple mentary petition shall become a twenty-five per cent. petition In such case supplementary petition is filed and no regular election is to be held within six months, the council shall call a special election to be held not less than thirty nor more than forty-hve days after the receipt of the clerks certificate that a sufficient supplementary petition has been filed. The sufhciency of any such supple mentary petition shall be determined and it may be amended in the manner provided for original petitions. When submitted the measure shall be either in it's original form, with any pro- posed change or addition which was presented in writing at the public hearing before the committee to I which such measure was referred, or 3 during the consideration by the coun- I Gil; and said committee of petitioners 5 shall certify to the clerk the require | measure in the form desired, within
 ten days after the date of final action T on such measure by the council. Up- l on receipt of the certificate and certi- hed copy of the measure, the clerk % shall certify the fact to the council at its next meeting and such measure I shall be submitted by the council to E the vote of the electors in a regular or Speca1 election as provided. At this point the form of the ballot is reproduced, after which it states that if the majority of the electors voting on any such measure shal vote in favor, it shall become an or
 dfnance, resolution, order or vote ol
 the town as the case may be-
 Sec 27. Any number of proposed
 measures may be voted upon at tn.
 same election.
 q Sec 2s. The people shall have the power to approve or reject an! & measure passed by the council o
 submitted by the council to vote O.
 the electors, excepting measures levy
 ing tax for or appropriating none!
 to defray the general expenses of thu
 town government or any departmen
 thereof; also measures ordering tn,
 construction of public or local i'm Il provements and levying assessn ent
 on the property specially benefited 8 Such power shall be known as tn T referendum; which power shall b M invoked and exercised as provid ed H All measures save those hereina bow & specifically excepted. submitted t & the council by initiative petition ant M passed by the council without chang or passed in amended form ant U not required by the committee o
 the petitioners to be submitted to
 vote of the electors, shall be subjec
 to the referendum in the same man H ner as other measures.