SEC. 36. REFERENDUM; EFFECT ON OTHER MEASURES; EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL.
Passage as an emergency measure shall not exempt any measure from the referendum, but the filing of a referendum petition shall not suspend or postpone the going into force or effect of an emergency measure. The referendum shall not be applicable to ordinances making or repealing appropriations or to ordinances transferring items of appropriations of money, to the annual tax budget or to the annual tax levy upon tangible real and personal property, to any measure providing for the discharge of any obligation legally due from the City, to any measure under the Constitution or laws of Ohio or under this Charter submitting any question or measure to the vote electors, to measures directing the performance of any official duty or providing for any investigation or report under the authority of this Charter, to resolutions not having the force or effect of law, to any repealing measure passed by Council in compliance with a referendum petition, or to any measure relating to any public improvement subsequent to the measure determining to proceed therewith, nor to any measure passed or adopted more than twenty-nine days prior to the filing of a referendum petition against it. No referendum petition shall be received against any measure to which the referendum is not applicable. The timely filing of a referendum petition, which purports and appears to be valid and sufficient, against any measure to which the referendum is applicable, shall, if such measure be not an emergency measure, stay the going into effect of such measure until it shall be determined that such referendum petition is invalid or insufficient, and otherwise until the result of the referendum election thereon shall be determined. If a majority of those voting on the question disapprove the measure sought to be repealed it shall be thereby immediately repealed.
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