Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Section 35.17.240 Legislative -- Referendum -- Filing suspends ordinance

§ 35.17.240. Legislative -- Referendum -- Filing suspends ordinance

Upon the filing of a referendum petition praying therefor, the commission shall reconsider an ordinance subject to referendum and upon reconsideration shall defeat it in its entirety or shall submit it to a vote of the people. The operation of an ordinance so protested against shall be suspended until the referendum petition is finally found insufficient or until the ordinance protested against has received a majority of the votes cast thereon at the election.

[1965 c 7 § 35.17.240. Prior: 1911 c 116 § 22, part; RRS § 9111, part.]

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