city of hope, idaho

Ordinance no. 253

An ordinance of the City of Hope, Bonner County, Idaho amending Ordinance #222, Section 6 (A).

WHEREAS Section 50-501, Idaho Code directs that the City Council of each City shall provide by ordinance for direct legislation by the people through the initiative and referendum process.

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant of sections 50-473, 50-501 and Chapter 18, Title 34, Idaho Code, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOPE:

SECTION 1. Ordinance #222 Section 6. (A) shall be amended in its entirety to read: Before or at the time of beginning to circulate any petition for initiative or referendum, the person or persons, organization or organizations under whose authority the petition is to circulated, send or deliver such petitions entitled to filing and consideration by the City Clerk there shall be affixed thereto the signatures of legal voters equal in number to not less than six percent (6%) of the qualified electors of the City at the time of the last general election. The Clerk shall immediately examine the petition and specify the form and kind and size of paper on which the petition shall be printed and circulated for further signatures. All petitions and sheets for signatures shall be printed on a good quality bond or ledger paper, on pages eight and one-half (8 1/2") in width by thirteen inches (13") in length, with a margin of one and three-fourths inches (1 3/4") at the top of binding, and the sheets for signatures shall have numbered lines thereon from one (1) to twenty (20) for signatures, the petition shall be prepared in sections, with each section numbered consecutively. Each section of a petition must have printed copy of the petition as the first page, and each section shall have attached to it not more than ten (1) sheets for signatures.

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage by the City Council and publication in one issue of the Bonner County Daily Bee; the official newspaper of the City of Hope.

Passed under suspension of the rules, and duly enacted as an ordinance of the City of Hope, Idaho, at a special meeting of the City Council of said City March 28, 2007,

Lawrence Keith, Mayor

Attest:

Shirley Ramey, City Clerk

Legal SNP# 8553

April 4, 2007