HomeMy WebLinkAbout2979 Amends 2.36 Initiatives & Referendums
ORDINANCE NO. ~ 91 c1
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ASHLAND MUNICIPAL CODE,
CHAPTER 2.36 INITIATIVES AND REFERENDUMS
Annotated to show deletions and additions to the code sections being modified.
Deletions are lined through in bold and additions are in bold underline.
WHEREAS, Article 7. Section 3 Elections of the Ashland City Charter provides:
Section 3. Special Elections The Council shall provide the time, manner and means
for holding any special election which shall comply with applicable State laws. The
Recorder shall give at least ten (10) days notice of each special election in the manner
provided by the action of the Council ordering the election.
WHEREAS, Jackson County elections office charges the City of Ashland for the cost of
an election on an initiative or referendum petition based on a formula of one dollar for
each registered voter in the City of Ashland; and
WHEREAS, the two hundred dollar deposit for election costs for initiative and
referendum elections in the Ashland Municipal Code has not been updated since 1962;
and
WHEREAS, the current deposit for costs is inadequate to cover the costs of initiative
and referendum elections and must be updated to reflect actual costs charged to the
City by the County; and
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND DO ORDAIN AS FOllOWS:
SECTION 1: Section 2.36.030, Deposit Required, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 2.36.030 Deposit Required.
Any person or persons, organization or organizations presenting or offering any initiative
or referendum petition for final filing shall, at the time of offering said petition, deposit
with the City Recorder either tv/o hundred dollars ($200.00) cash or a certified check
drawn to the order of the City of Ashland. for a sum as established by Resolution of
the City Council. said sum, which sum or check shall be held by the City Recorder
until after the election and, in case the referred or proposed measure is defeated at
such election, the entire cost of holding the election on such measure shall be paid from
such deposit, and if any balance remains after payment of such election expense, such
balance shall be returned to the proposer of any such measure. In the event any such
initiative or referendum measure is enacted at the election held thereon, the entire
amount of such deposit shall be returned to the proposer of such measure, and the
expenses of such election shall be paid from the general funds of the by the City.
This provision is made for the purpose of preventing the depletion of City funds by
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elections on matters in which the public is not interested and which have no merit.
SECTION 2. Severability.
If any section, provision, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this Ordinance or the
application thereof to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect the other sections, provisions, clauses or paragraphs of this Ordinance
which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the
provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be severable.
SECTION 3 Codification.
Provisions of this Ordinance shall be incorporated in the Ashland Municipal Code and
the word "ordinance" may be changed to "code", "article", "section", or another word,
and the sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered, or re-Iettered, provided
however that Sections 2 thru 3, unincorporated Whereas clauses and boilerplate
provisions need not be codified and the City Recorder is authorized to correct any
cross-references and any typographical errors.
The foregoing ordinance was first read by title only in accordance with Article X Section
2 (C) of the City Charter on the.3 day of ~i<6 2009
and Iy PASSED and ADOPTED on this /7 day of U 2009.
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Barbara M. Christensen, City Recorder
SIGNED and APPROVED this 17 day of ~ue-u; 2009.
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(' Jo n Stro~berg. Mayor 0
Reviewed as to form:
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