Except as otherwise provided in this Charter or by applicable law, the enactment of ordinances by the City Council shall be accomplished in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
(a) Meetings. Ordinances may be adopted at either regular, special or adjourned regular or special meetings of the City Council.
(b) Adoption of Ordinances. Ordinances shall be adopted in the manner and according to the procedure provided by general law, except as modified herein.
(c) Effective Date of Ordinances. Ordinances shall be effective in the time and manner provided by general law.
(d) Vote Required. No ordinance of this City shall become effective unless the same is adopted by the affirmative votes of at least three (3) members of the Council, except for ordinance by the adoption of which this Charter or applicable or general law requires a greater number of affirmative vote.
(e) Form. Each ordinance shall bear a title which shall briefly describe the subject matter of the ordinance and shall contain the following enacting clause: "The City Council of the City of Adelanto does ordain..." Each ordinance adopted by the City Council shall be signed by the Mayor, whose signature thereon shall be attested to by the City Clerk.
(f) Violation. Penalty. A violation of any duly enacted ordinance of the City shall constitute a misdemeanor which shall be prosecuted in the manner prescribed by applicable law. The city Council, by ordinance, shall provide for the place imprisonment for such violation and may provide that persons convicted of a violation of any such ordinance may be compelled to perform labor on public works of the City. Certain violations may, by ordinance, be classified as infractions.
(g) Codification. Any and all ordinances of the City may be compiled, consolidated, or recompiled and/or reconsolidated, and indexed and arranged in a comprehensive municipal ordinance code. Such code may be adopted by ordinance reference. Such code, if adopted by reference, need not be published in the manner required for other ordinances provided that
(1) Not less than three (3) copies thereof shall be on file in the office of the City Clerk, available for examination by members of the public prior to the adoption thereof; and
(2) The final adoption of such code shall not take place until a public hearing is held before the City Council to allow interested persons to express their views on such proposed Code; and
(3) Notice of such public hearings is given as required by general law, and
(4) Detailed regulations pertaining to any subject, such as building regulations, when arranged in a comprehensive code including maps, charts or diagrams, may also be adopted by reference in the manner provided in this Section, and
(5) Amendments to such code shall be enacted only by ordinance and, if no adoption by reference is involved, the procedure set forth in this subparagraph shall not apply to such adoption.
(h) Publication. Publication of ordinances shall be as provided for general law cities.