2088                                Municipal Charters

signatures of not less than twenty per centum (20%) of the qualified
voters of the City and requesting that the ordinance, or any part thereof,
be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the City for their approval
or disapproval, the Council shall have the ordinance, or the part thereof
requested for referendum, submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the
City at the next regular City election or, in the Council's discretion at a
special election occurring before the next regular election. No ordinance,
or the part thereof requested for referendum, shall become effective
following the receipt of such petition until and unless approved at the
election by a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question, except
that an emergency ordinance,, or the part thereof requested for referendum,
shall continue in effect for sixty days following receipt of such petition.
If the question of approval or disapproval of any emergency ordinance, or
any part thereof, has not been submitted to the qualified voters within
sixty days following receipt of the petition, then the operation of the
ordinance, or the part thereof requested for referendum, shall be suspended
until approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question
at any election. Any ordinance, or part thereof, disapproved by the voters,
shall stand repealed. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
ordinance, or part thereof, levying ad valorem property taxes, or to any
ordinance, or part thereof, adopting the annual budget. The provisions of
this section shall be self-executing, but the Council may adopt ordinances
in furtherance of these provisions and not in conflict with them.

b. The Council may, at the time of adoption of an ordinance, require
that it be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters at a general or special
election in the same manner as provided in Section 12.a.

13.        Ordinances shall be permanently filed by the City Manager and
shall be kept available for public inspection.

14.        The Mayor shall be elected as hereinafter provided and shall hold
office for a term of four years or until successor shall take office. Each
Mayor hereafter elected shall take office on the second Monday following
his election. The Mayor holding office at the time this Charter becomes
effective shall continue to hold office for the term for which he was elected
and until his successor takes office under the provisions of this Charter.

15.        No person shall be eligible for election to the office of Mayor unless
he shall have resided in the City for at least two consecutive years immedi-
ately preceding his election and unless he also be a qualified voter of the
City.

16.        The Mayor shall receive an annual salary to be fixed from time
to time by ordinance passed by the Council. His salary may not be increased
by an ordinance adopted during his term of office. The Mayor elected to
office in the election to take place in the calendar year 1970 shall receive
the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars per annum unless that
figure shall be changed by ordinance hereafter passed pursuant hereto.

17.        The Mayor, with the approval of a majority of the Council, shall
appoint the City Attorney and the members of the Planning Commission,
the Board of Appeals and the Supervisors of Elections.

18.        a. The Council shall appoint an officer of the City who shall have
the title of City Manager and shall have the powers and perform the duties
in this Charter provided and as may be otherwise assigned to him, not
inconsistent with this Charter. Neither the Mayor nor any member of
the Council shall receive such appointment during the term for which he