Montana § 7-3-4327 - Petition For Initiative

§ 7-3-4327. Petition For Initiative

Petition for initiative. (1) Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the commission by petition signed by at least 15% of the total number of electors registered at the last general municipal election. All petition papers circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance must be uniform in character and must contain the proposed ordinance in full and have printed or written on the petition the names and addresses of at least five electors who must be officially regarded as filing the petition and who constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purposes of this section. (2) Each signer of a petition shall sign the person's name in ink or indelible pencil and shall place on the petition papers, after the name, the person's place of residence by street and number. The signatures of any petition papers need not all be appended to one paper, but to each paper there must be attached an affidavit by the circulator of the petition, stating the number of signers to that 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 was made in the presence of the affiant. (3) Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances, in whole or in part, may be submitted to the commission as provided for initiating ordinances. (4) Initiated ordinances adopted by the electors must be published and may be amended or repealed by the commission as in the case of other ordinances.