(A) All ordinances, unless otherwise provided for herein, shall be prepared by the City Attorney. No ordinance shall be prepared for presentation to the Council unless ordered by a majority vote of the Council or requested in writing by the Mayor, City Manager or City Attorney.
(B) All ordinances, resolutions and contract documents shall, before presentation to the Council, have been approved as to form and legality by the City Attorney or his or her authorized representative, and further, such shall have been examined and approved for administration by the City Manager or his or her authorized representative, where there are substantive matters of administration involved.
(C) (1) Ordinances and resolutions must be introduced and sponsored by a member of the Council, except that the City Manager or City Attorney may present ordinances and resolutions, and any Council member may assume sponsorship thereof by moving that the ordinance and resolution be adopted. Otherwise, they shall not be considered.
(2) No ordinance shall relate to more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.
(3) When any person, persons or corporations shall present an ordinance to the Council asking for any franchise, lease, privilege, right-of-way, occupancy or otherwise of any street, alley, park, square or any public ground or property, or any extension of a previous grant of the same or the closing of any street or alley, they shall furnish to the Council an original and 12 copies of the ordinance printed, and if required by the City Manager, the person, persons or corporations presenting the ordinance shall provide each member of the Council, the City Manager, the City Attorney and the City Clerk, a plat of the property. No ordinance shall be considered until these terms have been complied with and the proposed ordinance has been reviewed by the City Attorney.
(Prior Code, § 2-620) (Ord. 1632, passed 3-7-00)