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(A) The style of all municipal ordinances shall be: “Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Bloomfield, Nebraska...”
(Prior Code, § 1-604)
(B) No ordinance shall contain a subject not clearly expressed in its title.
(Prior Code, § 1-605)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613, 17-614
(A) Ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be read by title on three different days unless three-fourths of the governing body vote to suspend this requirement; except that, such requirement shall not be suspended for any ordinance for the annexation of territory.
(B) In case such requirement is suspended, the ordinance shall be read by title and then moved for final passage.
(C) Three-fourths of the governing body may require a reading of any ordinance in full before enactment under either procedure set out in this section. All ordinances and resolutions or order for the appropriation or payment of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all members elected to the governing body.
(D) On the passage or adoption of every bylaw or ordinance, and every resolution or order to enter into a contract by the governing body, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded. To pass or adopt any bylaw, ordinance or any such resolution or order, a concurrence of a majority of the whole number of members elected to the governing body shall be required. All appointments of the officers by the governing body shall be made viva voce; and the concurrence of a like majority shall be required, and the name of those, and for whom they voted, on the vote resulting in an appointment, shall be recorded.
(E) The requirements of a roll call or viva voce vote shall be satisfied by a municipality which utilizes an electronic voting device which allows the yeas and nays of each member of the governing body to be readily seen by the public.
(Prior Code, § 1-606) (Ord. 3-95, passed 2-6-1995; Ord. 97-7, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-614, 17-616
All ordinances of a general nature shall, before they take effect, be published one time, within 15 days after they are passed:
(A) In some newspaper published in the municipality or, if no paper is published in the municipality, then by posting a written or printed copy in each of three public places in the municipality; or
(B) In book or pamphlet form.
(Prior Code, § 1-607) (Ord. 97-8, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613
The passage, approval, and publication or posting of all ordinances shall be sufficiently proven by a certificate under the seal of the municipality from the Municipal Clerk showing that the said ordinance was passed and approved, and when, and in what paper the same was published, or when, and by whom, and where the same was posted.
(Prior Code, § 1-608)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613
(A) Except as provided in division (B) below, an ordinance for the government of the municipality which has been adopted by the governing body without submission to the voters of the municipality shall not go into effect until 15 days after the passage of the ordinance.
(B) (1) In the case of riot, infectious or contagious diseases, or other impending danger, failure of a public utility, or any other emergency requiring its immediate operation, an ordinance shall take effect upon the proclamation of the Mayor and the posting thereof in at least three of the most public places in the municipality.
(2) Such emergency ordinance shall recite the emergency, be passed by a three-fourths vote of the governing body, and be entered of record on the Municipal Clerk’s minutes.
(Prior Code, § 1-609) (Ord. 97-9, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613, 19-3701
No ordinance or section thereof shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance contains the entire ordinance or section as revised or amended and the ordinance or section so amended is repealed; except that, an ordinance revising all the ordinances of the municipality and modifications to zoning or building districts may be adopted as otherwise provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 1-610) (Ord. 97-10, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-614
MEETINGS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MEETING. All regular, special or called meetings, formal or informal, of a public body for the purposes of briefing, discussion of public business, formation of tentative policy or the taking of any action.
(Prior Code, § 1-501)
PUBLIC BODY.
(1) (a) The City Council;
(b) All independent boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, councils, subunits or any other bodies created by the Constitution of the state, statute, ordinance or otherwise pursuant to law; and
(c) Advisory committees of the bodies listed above.
(2) PUBLIC BODY does not include subcommittees of such bodies unless a quorum of the public body attends a subcommittee meeting or unless the subcommittees are holding hearings, making policy or taking formal action on behalf of their parent body.
(Neb. RS 84-1409) (Prior Code, § 1-502)
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