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Section 23- Changes and Amendments (a) Any petition or ordinance for the amendment, supplement, change or repeal of the zoning ordinance or any part thereof, not originating in the City Plan Commission, shall be referred to the Plan Commission for consideration and report before any final action is taken by the City Council. (b) Prior to the submission to the City Council of a Plan Commission petition or a report on a proposed ordinance or a petition referred to it for recommendation, the Plan Commission shall hold a public hearing on the same, notice of which shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, ten (10) days prior to the date set for such hearing. Such notice shall give the date, time and place of such public hearing. (c) If the report of the Plan Commission is adverse to the proposed change or amendament, the ordinance shall not be passed except by a vote of at least seventy -five percentum of the members of the City Council. (d) Sixty (60) days after report of the Plan Commission to the Council favoring the change or amendment, the change or amendment shall have the same effect as ordinances passed by the Council, unless the City Council shall have acted upon it to become effective at an earlier date. If the City Council rejects or amends the proposed change or amendment, it shall be returned to the Plan Commission for its consideration, with a written statement of the reasons for its rejection or amendment. (e) The Plan Commission shall have forty -five (45) days in which to con- sider the rejection or amendment and report to the City Council. If the Commis- sion approves the amendment, the ordinance shall stand as passed by the Council as of the date of the recording of the Commission's report to the City Council. If the Commission disapproves the amendment or rejection, the action of the coun- cil on the original amendment or rejection shall stand only if confirmed by a seventy -five (75) percentum vote of the City Council. (f) In case the Commission does not file a report with the City Council within forty -five (45) days, the action of the Council in amending or rejecting the ordinance shall become final. (g) Change or amendment to this ordinance affecting the zone classifica- tion of property may be initiated by petition of the owners of at least fifty (50) percentum of the property for which the change is sought. Such petition shall be signed and acknowledged and filed in the office of the City Clerk. (h) The City Council may reject such petition when found inadequate, or it may accept it and refer it to the City Plan Commission for report. The cost of publication by the Plan Commission shall be assessed against and paid by the petitioner., Section 24, Violation, Penalty, (a) Any person, firm or corporation who v olates, disobeys, omits, neg- lects or refuses to comply witfi,or who resists a enforcement of any of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall be fined not * t wa hank O UAVO dollars - -nr] 01 dollars for AA �Se, and be imprisoned in the Count Jail „ °+ ' - ^` ^ ^ ° + °.. Ea da that a violation is Y j Y permitted t exist shall constitute a separate off se.