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No ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature or granting a franchise, creating a right or involving the expenditure of money or the levying of a tax, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property, shall be passed unless it has been fully and distinctly read on three different dates, and with respect to any such ordinance or resolution, there shall be no authority to dispense with this rule, except by a three-fourths vote of all members elected to Council taken by yeas and nays, on each resolution or ordinance, and entered in the minutes. This exception shall not apply to nonemergency ordinances or resolutions.
(Ord. 36-85. Passed 9-9-85.)
All emergency measures shall require three readings, unless the rule requiring such readings, two by title only, is suspended as provided in Section 220.33. A roll call shall first be taken on the emergency clause and then a roll call on the legislation under consideration. In order to pass as an emergency measure, the affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members elected to Council is required on the emergency clause.
(Ord. 304-66. Passed 12-14-66.)
A majority vote is required to alter, amend, rescind or supplement these rules. Any proposed alteration, amendment or supplement shall be submitted in writing at a regular meeting and placed on the calendar for the next regular meeting under the order of new business. By unanimous recorded vote of all members elected to Council, such proposed alteration, amendment or supplement may be adopted at the meeting at which the same is submitted.
(Ord. 304-66. Passed 12-14-66.)
The Law Director shall, when requested by a member of Council, give a verbal opinion on any question of law concerning Municipal affairs, in open Council, but he or she may, if he or she deems the matter of importance, take a reasonable time to submit his or her opinion in writing. He or she shall not be required to draw any ordinance or resolution except upon a majority vote of the members present. He or she shall give opinions on questions of parliamentary law at the request of the Chair, but the Chair shall render the decision on the question.
(Ord. 304-66. Passed 12-14-66.)
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