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become effective until 90 days after passage and publication or at such later date as is fixed in the <br />ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and publication of such an ordinance, a petition <br />requesting a referendum on the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. Such petition shall be <br />signed by qualified voters equal in number to two percent of the total number of votes cast in the <br />city at the last state general election or 2,000, whichever is less. If the city has a system of <br />permanent registration of voters, only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. If the <br />requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become effective <br />until it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted by the charter <br />commission, the council, or by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit the <br />ordinance at any general or special election held at least 60 days after submission of the petition, <br />or it may reconsider its action in adopting the ordinance. As far as practicable the requirements <br />of subdivisions 1 to 3 apply to petitions submitted under this section, to an ordinance amending a <br />charter, and to the filing of such ordinance when approved by the voters. <br /> <br />(1286) RL s 756; 1907 c 199 s 1; 1911 c 343 s 1; 1939 c292 s 1; 1943 c 227 s 1; 1949 c 122 s I; <br />1959 c 305 s 3,4; 1961 c 608 s 5,6; 1969 c 1027 s 3; 1973 c 503 s 1-4; 1986 c444 <br /> <br />410.121 Sale of intoxicating liquor or wine; favorable vote. <br /> <br />If the charter which is to be amended or replaced contains provisions which prohibit the sale of <br />intoxicating liquor or wine in certain areas, such provisions shall not be amended or removed <br />unless 55 percent of the votes cast on the proposition shall be in favor thereof. <br /> <br />1969 c 1027 s 2 <br /> <br />410.I3 Repealed, 1959 c 305 s 6 <br /> <br />410.14 Alternative proposals. <br /> <br />In submitting a charter or an amendment to the voters any altemative section or article may be <br />presented and voted on separately, without prejudice to other articles or sections of the charter or <br />any amendments thereto. <br /> <br />(1288) RL s 757 <br /> <br />410.15 Succession; subsisting rights. <br /> <br />The new city so organized shall be in all respects the legal successor of the former corporation, <br />and no charter so adopted, nor any amendment thereof, shall prejudice any subsisting right, lien, <br />or demand against the city superseded, or affect any pending action or proceeding to enforce the <br />same. All rights, penalties, and forfeitures accrued or accruing to such former corporation, all <br />property vested therein or held in trust therefor, all taxes and assessments levied in its behalf, and <br />all its privileges and immunities not inconsistent with the new charter, shall pass to its successor. <br />All ordinances, resolutions, and bylaws in force at the adoption of such new charter, and not in <br />conflict with its provisions, shall continue in force until duly altered or repealed. <br /> <br />(1289) RL s 758; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7 <br /> <br /> <br />