§ 50. Initiative petition of proposed ordinances - Required signatures, etc.

Any proposed ordinance, including ordinances for repeal of ordinances then in effect or which have been enacted but not yet effective, may be submitted to the City Commission by a petition, signed by at least twenty-five per cent of the total number of registered voters in the City. All petitions circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance shall be uniform in character, shall contain the proposed ordinance in full and shall have printed or written thereon the names of five electors who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition, and shall constitute a committee of the petitioners for purposes hereinafter named. Each signer of the petition shall sign his name in ink or indelible pencil and shall place on the petition opposite his name the date of his signature. The signatures of any such petition need not be appended to one paper, but to each such paper shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator thereof, stating the number of signers to such part of the petition and that each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be, and that it was made in the presence of the affiant on the date indicated. (Laws of Fla. 1947, Ch. 24398, § 140; Ord. No. 02-043, § 5, 8-20-02, election of 11-5-02; Ord. No. 12-023, § 2, 1-15-13, election of 3-12-13)