INITIATIVE.
El Paso City Charter, art. III, § 3.11
in effectSection 3.11 - INITIATIVE.
Whenever a number of registered voters equal to at least five percent of the voters who voted in the last general City election sign a petition setting forth the precise content of an ordinance desired by the signers, the Council must place that ordinance on the agenda of a Council meeting to be held within thirty working days of the receipt, by the City Clerk, of the petition bearing the authenticated names and addresses of the petitioners. Such an item shall be treated by the Council exactly as any other proposed ordinance.
Should an ordinance proposed by such petition not be enacted by the Council, or should it be enacted in an amended form, a second petition, signed by a number of registered voters equal to at least five percent of the voters who voted in the last general City election, may be submitted to the City Clerk and that official shall have twenty working days in which to authenticate the signatures and thereafter must place the reproposed ordinance on the ballot at the next general election specified in State law, if the proposal received the favorable vote of a majority of those voting in that election it shall thereupon become a City ordinance.
The Council is not obliged to consider the same ordinance initiated by petition, or one that is substantially the same, more often than once in: two years.
Source: City of El Paso, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/el_paso/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTIIITHCO_S3.11INFetched: 10/28/2026