When any measure for initiative or referendum legislation shall be filed by the recorder after the number and genuineness of signatures thereto as provided by YMC 1.10.060 have been ascertained, or when any resolution of the council shall be filed with the recorder as provided in YMC 1.10.080, the recorder shall forthwith transmit to the attorney of said city a copy of such measure, who shall within two days provide and return to the recorder a ballot title for such measure. The ballot title shall be printed with the number of the measure on the official ballot. In making such ballot title, said attorney shall, to the best of his ability, give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure and in such language that the ballot title shall not be an argument for, or liable to create prejudice against, such measure. Any person who is dissatisfied with the ballot title provided by the said attorney for any such measure may within two days after said ballot title is returned to the recorder, appeal to the council asking a different title and giving the reasons therefor, and stating why the title prepared by the said attorney is improper; and the council shall by resolution approve the ballot title prepared by said attorney or shall by resolution prescribe another ballot title therefor; and the ballot so approved or so prescribed by the council shall be the title placed upon the ballot. Such ballot title shall in no case exceed 100 words and shall not resemble, insofar as possible, any other ballot title filed for any measure. The recorder of the city of Yoncalla shall number such measures and ballot titles in the most convenient and consecutive manner. The first measure shall be numbered 51 in numerals, and the succeeding measures shall be numbered 52, 53, 54, 55 and so on. It shall be the duty of the recorder to print said ballot titles and numbers upon the official ballot. Measures referred to the voters by petition shall be designated “Referendum ordered by petition of the people.” Measures proposed by the initiative petition shall be designated “Proposed by initiative petition.” Charter amendments or a new charter submitted by the council without initiative petition shall be designated “Charter amendments submitted to the voters by the council.”

Provided, however, that when charter amendments or a new charter are to be submitted to the voters by resolution of the council as in the ordinance codified in this chapter provided, the council may in said resolution provide for a ballot title for the measure so to be submitted; and in the event of such provision being made by the council the hereinabove provision of this section relative to the filing of the measure with the city attorney, the preparation by said attorney of a ballot therefor, and the appeal to the council from the ballot title so prepared, shall not apply. (Ord. 211, 1977; Ord. 104 § 10, 1949).