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ORDYIrTAN ` INTO. 87 IIAN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF EXERCISING THE IN= ITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM POWERS, RESERVED TO LEGAL VOTERS OF EVERY CITY, TOWN AND MUNICIPALITY AS TO ALL LOCAL, SPECIAL AND MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION OF EVERY CHARACTER, IN AND FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE MUNI- CIPALITIES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, BY THE LEGAL VOTERS OF THE TOWN OF LOUISVILLE, BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO, AS TO ALL OF THEIR MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION. BE TT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF LOUIS- VILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. That the initiative powers, as reserved to the legal voters of every city, town or municipality, as to ail local, spec- ial and municipal legislation of every character, in or for their respective municipalities in the Constitution of the State or Colo- rado, shall extend to and include all local, special and municipal legislation of every character in and by the Town of Louisville, County of boulder and State of Colorado, witnin the powers belonging to or conferred upon incorporated towns, under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Colorado; and the said initiative powers shall be exercised in and by the Town of Louisville, County of Boulder, State of Colorado, in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance. IISection 2. That every iriitiative-,petition shall include the full text of the measure proposed; shall be signed by legal voters of the Town of Louisville in number at least fifteen (15) per cent pf the whole number of votes cast in said Town for Mayor at the last municipal election of town officers preceding. the filing of any 'such initiative petition, and shall be addressed to the Mayor and Board of Trustees of said Town and filed with the Clerk Of said Town at least ninety (90) days before the election at which it is to be voted upon. Said petition shall be submitted by the Clerk of the Town, to the Board Of Trustees at its next'session following the said filing. The Board of Trustees shall either ordain or reject the same as proposed within thirty (30) days ' after its submission; and if the Board of Trustees shall reject the said proposed Ordinance or shall take no action thereon, then the Town Clerk shall submit the same to the voters of the Town at the next ensuing election held therein not less than ninety (90) days after the same was filed with the Town Clerk, or at a . -, special election for the, purpose of voting on said measure, if a special election is demanded by said petition. The Board of Trustees may ordain said ordinance and ,refer, it to the voters of the said Town or it may ordain said ordinance without refer- ring it of the people, and in the latter case it may be subject to the referendum petition in like manner as other ordinances., If the Board of Trustees shall reject said ordinance or take no action II thereon it may ordain a competing ordinance which shall be sub- mitted-by the Town Clerk at the same election at which said init- iative ordinance is submitted. Such competing ordinance shall be prepared by the Board of Trustees and ordained within the thirty (30) days allowed for its action on the measure proposed by init- iative petition. The Mayor shall have no power to veto either of said measures. _.