The ordinance codified in this chapter shall be subject to approval or rejection by the voters under the referendum procedures provided in the Laws of 1983, Regular Session, Chap. 99, Sec. 2. Any referendum petition to repeal the tax or alter the tax rate imposed by this chapter shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board within seven days of passage of the ordinance codified in this chapter. Within 10 days, the Clerk of the Board shall confer with the petitioner concerning form and style of the petition, issue an identification number for the petition, and the Prosecuting Attorney shall write a ballot title for the measure. The ballot title shall be posed as a question so that an affirmative answer to the question and an affirmative vote on the measure results in the tax being imposed and a negative answer to the question and a negative vote on the measure results in the tax not being imposed. The petitioner shall be notified of the identification number and ballot title within this 10-day period.

After this notification, the petitioner shall have 30 days in which to secure on petition forms the signatures of not less than 15 percent of the registered voters of the County and to file the signed petitions with the Clerk of the Board. Each petition form shall contain the ballot title and the full text of the measure to be referred. The Clerk of the Board shall verify the sufficiency of the signatures on the petitions. If sufficient valid signatures are properly submitted, the Clerk of the Board shall submit the referendum measure to Clallam County voters at a general or special election held on one of the dates provided in RCW 29.13.010 or as determined by the Clallam County Commissioners, which election shall not take place later than 120 days after the signed petition has been filed with the Clerk of the Board.