All legislative action shall be by ordinance or resolution in written or printed form, but the departmental procedural matters may be transacted by motion appearing on the journal. Unless otherwise provided herein, an affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the Legislative Authority shall be required for the passage of every ordinance, motion or resolution. Each ordinance and resolution shall be read by title only, provided the legislative authority may require any reading to be in full by a majority of its members.
No ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one subject, which subject shall be clearly expressed on its title, and no ordinance or resolution shall be revised or amended unless the ordinance or resolution superseding it contains the entire ordinance or resolution so revised or amended, or the section or sections so revised or amended, and having been revised or amended, the original ordinance, resolution, or section or sections shall be expressly repealed.
All ordinances, resolutions, statements, orders, proclamations and reports required by law or by this Charter or by ordinance to be published or posted, shall be published or posted electronically and at City Hall for a period of not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the taking of effect thereof. An emergency ordinance or resolution shall also be published or posted as aforesaid, but said requirement shall not postpone the immediate taking effect thereof, as provided in Section 14 of this Article. Council may, by appropriate legislative action, designate additional methods or places for publication.
(Amended 11-4-86; 11-4-03; 11-8-22)