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6 -1 6 -2: 6 -3:1 ARTICLE VI INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM General Authority. (A) Initiative. The registered electors of the Town shall have power to propose any ordinance to the Council, in accordance with the provisions of this Article. (B) Referendum. The registered electors of the Town shall have power to require reconsideration by the Council of any ordinance in accordance with the procedures of this Article except emergency ordinances or ordinances dealing with administrative matters, including but not limited to, budgets, appropriations, calling elections, employee salaries, contractual obligations and payments of bills. Petitioner's Committee. Any three registered electors of the Town may commence initiative or referendum proceedings by filing with the Town Clerk an affidavit stating that they will constitute the petitioner's committee, will circulate the petition and file it in proper form, and further stating their names, street addresses, the address to which all notices to the committee are to be sent, and setting out in full the proposed initiative ordinance or citing the ordinance sought to be reconsidered. Promptly after the affidavit of the petitioner's committee is filed, the Clerk shall issue the appropriate petition forms to the petitioner's committee. Petitions. (A) Number of Signatures. Initiative petitions must be signed by registered electors of the Town equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total number of registered electors in Town as of the date the petition forms are issued by the Clerk. Referendum petitions must be signed by registered electors of the Town equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total number of registered electors as of the date the petition forms are issued by the Clerk. (B) Form and Content. All pages of a petition shall be uniform in size and style and shall be assembled as one instrument for filing. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by 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. (C) Reading of Ordinance. The Circulator shall require every person signing the petition to read it and the ordinance in question in full prior to signing. (D) Affidavit of Circulator. Each page of a petition shall have attached to it, when filed, an affidavit of the circulator stating that the Circulator personally circulated the The Charter of the Town of Ridgway 14