A. If an initiative petition contains the required number of verified signatures, the city elections officer shall file the initiated measure with the council within 15 days after the petition has qualified to the ballot. The initiated measure shall be deemed filed with the council on the date the council first reviews the initiated measure as an agenda item at a public meeting.

B. The council may adopt or reject the measure no later than 45 days after the initiated measure is first reviewed by the council as an agenda item at a public meeting. If the council takes no action, the council shall be deemed to have rejected the measure. If either the measure is not adopted, or the measure must be submitted to City electors under the Beaverton Charter or state law, then the measure shall be submitted to City electors on the next available election date pursuant to state law held not sooner than one hundred twentieth day after the measure was filed with the council.

C. The council may refer a competing measure to City electors at the same election an initiated measure is submitted to City electors. If the council refers a competing measure to City electors, the council shall prepare the measure not later than the sixtieth day after the initiated measure is filed.

D. If a referendum petition contains the required number of verified signatures, the referred measure shall be submitted to City electors on the next available election date pursuant to state law held not sooner than the one hundred twentieth day after the referendum petition was filed with the city elections officer. [BC 2.06.405, added by Ordinance No. 3980, 4/28/97; BC 2.06.405, repealed and replaced by Ordinance No. 4748, 1/8/19; amended by Ordinance No. 4794, 12/1/20]