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Griffiths: It became law without the Governor's signature on May 4, 1993, at 12:01 a.m., which meant that it passed the General Assembly, was submitted to the Governor for a signature, and apparently sat on his desk for however long it must sit on his desk until it becomes law without his signature. Davidson: So, from May 4 the City Clerk should have accepted it? Griffiths: From that point on, any petition formally submitted to the City Clerk was a petition under this Bill. Davidson: If the City Clerk would have accepted it, this title setting would have taken place the first or second meeting in June. So, the fact that the City Clerk did not accept it, was required to, the petitioners are now asking that we hold a special meeting to set the title. It behooves the city that in all fairness to the petitioners, since the City Clerk delayed the acceptance of the petition for title setting, that we are therefore obligated to adhere to their wishes. If they gain the proper number of signatures, we should just adopt it and send it on to the voters, rather than just sending it on to the voters and that clarifies any issues about the title. Griffiths: I would not know whether or not the City Clerk didn't accept it early or not. As any comments I made should not include an assumption that the City Clerk didn't accept it earlier. Sisk: If the Council, upon the requisite number of signatures, 450, accepted that and put it on the ballot, would that mean that there could be no scrutiny by the protester? Griffiths stated that the Council can say that it has enough signatures and it's going to go on the ballot, or the Council