The mayor of an incorporated municipality shall issue an order calling for an election on the question of whether or not the municipality shall frame a charter for its own government and elect a board of freeholders to prepare the charter when:
1. A petition signed by not less then twenty-five percent (25%) of the registered voters of the municipality, as shown by the preceding general election, is filed with the governing body; or
2. The governing body, by resolution, so directs.
The order calling for the election shall be issued within ten (10) days after a petition has been filed with the governing body or within ten (10) days after the date of the governing body resolution.
Laws 1977, c. 256, § 13-102, eff. July 1, 1978.