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proposed without any change in substance, to adopt or reject it-such proposed ordinance, at a City election,provided that such power shall not extend to the annual budget or capital program or any ordinance appropriating money, levying taxes or setting salaries of City =cm; as crap:a Cw,pu Duaui iV D1 i.ii i'al uuai UUUigCi. ii) Referendum. The electors of the City shall have power to require reconsideration by the Commission of any adopted ordinance and,if the Commission fails to repeal an ordinance so reconsidered, to approve or reject it-such adopted ordinance at a City election,provided that such power shall not extend_to the annual budget or capital program or any ordinance appropriating money, levying taxes or setting salaries of City officers or employees, pursuant to such annual budget. (c) Petitions. i) Number of Signatures. Initiative and referendum petitions must be signed by electors of the City equal in number to at least ten percent (10%) of the total number of electors registered to vote at the last regular City election. ii) Form and Content. All papers of--constituting a petition shall be assembled as one instrument of filing. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by the printed name of the side signatory and the address of the person signing. Petitions shall contain or have attached thereto throughout their circulation the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered. iii) Affidavit of Circulator. Each paper constituting a petition shall have attached to it when filed an affidavit executed by the circulator thereof stating that s/he personally circulated the papers constituting the petition, the number of signatures thereon, that all the signatures were affixed in his/her presence that s/he believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be and that each signer has had an opportunity before signing to read the full text of the ordinance proposed or sought to be reconsidered. iv) Filing Deadline., All initiative and referendum petitions must be filed within sixty (60) days of the date on which proceedings with respect to such initiative or referendum are commenced. (d) Procedure for Filing. i) Certificate of Clerk: Amendment. Within twenty (20) days after an initiative petition is filed or within five (5) days after a referendum petition is filed, the Clerk shall complete a Certificate as to its sufficiency (the "Certificate") specifying, if it is insufficient, the particulars wherein it is defective and shall promptly send a copy of the Certificate to the petitioners' committee by registered mail. Grounds for insufficiency are only those specified in subsection (c) of this Section. A petition certified insufficient for lack of the required number of valid signatures may be amended once if the petitioners' committee files a notice of intention to amend it with the Clerk within two(2)business days 3