Action of Council shall be by ordinance, resolution or motion. Motion shall be used to conduct the business of the Council in procedural matters, for elections conducted among Council members, and as othewise provided in this Charter. Every action of a general and permanent nature, or granting a franchise; or levying a tax; or appropriating money; or contracting an indebtedness to evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes; or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property, or establishing an offense and fixing the penalty therefor shall be taken by ordinance or resolution in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be taken by ordinance, resolution, or motion. No action of the Council shall be invalidated merely because the form of the action does not comply with the provisions of this section, if it is otherwise valid.
(a) Any member of Council may, at a regular or special meeting, introduce any ordinance or resolution. Such ordinance or resolution shall be in written or printed form and shall contain a concise title.
(b) The form and style of ordinances and resolutions shall be determined by the rules, regulations and bylaws of the Council.
Each ordinance or resolution shall contain only one subject which shall be expressed in its title, provided however, that appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects, accounts, and amounts for which moneys are appropriated, and that ordinances and resolutions which are codified or recodified are not subject to the limitation of containing one subject.
(a) Each ordinance and resolution shall be read by title only, unless a motion is passed by majority vote of the members of Council requiring that it be read in full.
(b) Each ordinance or resolution shall be read on three separate days. The Council may, by a vote of not less than four-fifths of its members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution be read on three separate days, and authorize the adoption of an ordinance or resolution upon its first or second reading.
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