CHAPTER 10: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
   10.01   Ordinances; duty to enact
   10.02   Enacting clause
   10.03   Procedures for enactment
   10.04   Emergency ordinance
   10.05   Ordinance book; notation of amending and repealing ordinances
   10.06   How code designated and cited
   10.07   Definitions
   10.08   Catch lines or sections
   10.09   Effect of repeal of ordinances
   10.10   Severability of parts of code
 
   10.99   Penalty
§ 10.01 ORDINANCES; DUTY TO ENACT.
   It shall be the duty of the Town Council to pass, from time to time, such ordinances as, in its judgment, shall best promote the interests of the citizens and property holders of the town.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.02 ENACTING CLAUSE.
   The style of all ordinances shall be: “Be it Ordered and Ordained by the Council of the Town of Awendaw, S.C., and it is ordained by the authority of said Council.”
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.03 PROCEDURES FOR ENACTMENT.
   (A)   Town laws to be in the form of ordinances. All laws passed by the Town Council shall be in the form of ordinances, which shall receive two readings. There shall be a minimum of six days between the first and second readings. No notice shall be necessary for the introduction of a bill.
   (B)   First reading. The first reading of a bill shall be by title only. The bill may be referred to some committee, unless the members of Council unanimously agree, without debate, to dispense with reference.
   (C)   Second reading. The second reading of a bill shall be by title only; provided that any section of a bill may be read, word by word, upon the request of any Council member. All amendments offered at second reading shall be read, word by word, prior to a vote on the amendment. After the bill shall have been so read and all amendments and privileged motions, if any, disposed of, the question shall be, “Shall this bill pass, the title thereof changed to an ordinance and be incorporated into the Municipal Code for the Town of Awendaw?” Upon a decision in the negative, the bill shall be rejected. Upon a decision in the affirmative, the bill shall be passed and shall take effect as an ordinance of the town immediately upon passage; provided that, if an effective date is specified, the bill shall take effect as an ordinance of the town upon such effective date.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.04 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE.
   As prescribed by law, the Town Council reserves the right to pass emergency ordinances.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.05 ORDINANCE BOOK; NOTATION OF AMENDING AND REPEALING ORDINANCES.
   (A)   The book in which the ordinances are engrossed shall be known as the “Ordinance Book of the Town of Awendaw, South Carolina.”
   (B)   The Clerk shall write on the first page of every ordinance that has been amended or repealed the words “amended” or “repealed,” as the case may be. The amended or repealed sections of the amended ordinance shall be redlined and a cross-reference made to the amending ordinance, giving the ordinance number, ratification date and the page thereof in the ordinance book.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
§ 10.06 HOW CODE DESIGNATED AND CITED.
   The ordinances embraced in this code shall constitute and be designated “The Code of the Town of Awendaw, South Carolina” and may be so cited.
(Ord. 13-5, passed 9-5-2013)
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