7-3-1228. Action on initiative petition. (1) If an initiative petition or amended petition be found sufficient by the clerk, he shall so certify and shall submit the ordinance therein set forth to the commission at its next meeting, and the commission shall at once read and refer it to an appropriate committee, which may be a committee of the whole.
     (2) Provision shall be made for public hearings upon the proposed ordinance before the committee to which it is referred. Thereafter, the committee shall report the ordinance to the commission, with its recommendations thereon, not later than 60 days after the date on which such ordinance was submitted to the commission by the clerk.
     (3) Upon receiving the ordinance from the committee, the commission shall proceed at once to consider it and shall take final action thereon within 30 days from the date of such committee report.

     History: En. Sec. 20, Ch. 121, L. 1923; re-en. Sec. 5520.20, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3420.