§ 5. Council shall have final authority.
The resolution shall then be referred to the City Council which shall, within thirty (30) days, conduct a public hearing on the proposed resolution and adopt the resolution without modification, reject the resolution, or adopt the resolution with such modification as the Council deems necessary. If any changes in ward boundaries are adopted by City Council, such changes shall also be adopted by ordinance and codified in the Code of the City of Norman. In any alteration or amendment of the resolution as proposed by the Reapportionment Ad Hoc Committee, the City Council shall use the same criteria for ward boundaries as hereinabove adopted for the use of the Reapportionment Ad Hoc Committee.
Thereupon, the new wards and boundaries shall supersede the previous wards and boundaries for purposes of the next primary and general election, and for all other purposes on the day on which the terms of the Councilmembers elected that year begin.
(Ord. No. 0-1516-25, § 12)