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The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance, resolution, and motion shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the Journal, and no ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be passed without concurrence of a majority of the members of the Council, except that each emergency ordinance or resolution shall require the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of Council for its enactment, provided that if such emergency ordinance or resolution shall fail to receive the required two-thirds affirmative vote, but receives the necessary majority for passage as a nonemergency ordinance or resolution, it shall be considered passed as a nonemergency ordinance or resolution and shall become effective as hereinafter provided by this Charter. A majority of the members present at any regular or special Council meeting may compel the attendance of absent members.
Each emergency ordinance or resolution shall determine that said ordinance or resolution is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare, and shall contain a statement of the necessity for such emergency.
(a) Each ordinance or resolution providing for the appropriation of money, an annual tax levy for current expenses, improvements petitioned for by owners of the requisite majority of front footage or of the area of the property benefited and to be specially assessed therefor, submission of any question to the electorate or the determination to proceed with an election, redividing City wards, providing for the approval of a revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement of ordinances and resolutions, or publication thereof in book form, and any emergency ordinance or resolution shall take effect, unless a later time be specified therein, immediately upon its passage. No other ordinance or resolution shall go into effect until thirty days following its passage. All ordinances and resolutions shall be subject to veto by the Mayor as provided in Section 2.07 of this Charter, unless otherwise provided in this Charter.
(b) For purposes of determining the effective date of ordinances and resolutions, the day of passage shall be determined as follows:
(1) If the ordinance or resolution is adopted by Council and signed by the Mayor as approving it within the seven day period provided for in Section 2.07 of this Charter, its "date of passage" shall be the date the ordinance or resolution was signed by the Mayor.
(2) If the ordinance or resolution is adopted by Council and returned by the Mayor within the seven day period provided in Section 2.07 of this Charter, without the Mayor signing to approve it or vetoing it, or if the ordinance or resolution is adopted by the Council and the Mayor does not return the ordinance or resolution within the seven day period provided for in Section 2.07 of this Charter, its "date of passage" shall be the last day of said seven day period.
(3) If the ordinance or resolution is adopted by the Council, vetoed by the Mayor and approved by a vote of a least four-fifths of the members of Council upon its reconsideration, as provided in Section 2.07 of this Charter, its "date of passage" shall be the day on which it is considered and approved by the Council.
Each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the City Clerk-Treasurer; however, the failure or refusal of such officer to sign such ordinances or resolutions shall not invalidate an otherwise properly enacted ordinance or resolution.
Each ordinance or resolution shall be recorded in a book, or other record prescribed by the Council, established and maintained for that purpose. The City Clerk-Treasurer or a duly authorized deputy to said Clerk, shall, upon the request of any person and upon the payment of a fee, as established by the Council, certify true copies of any ordinance or resolution, which certified copies shall be admissable as evidence in any court.
(a) No ordinance or resolution or any section thereof, shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance, resolution or section or subsection as revised or amended, and the ordinance, resolution or section or subsection so amended shall be repealed. This requirement shall not prevent the amendment of an ordinance or resolution by the addition of a new section, sections, subsection or subsections and in case the full text of the former ordinance or resolution need not be set forth; nor shall this section prevent repeals by implication.
(b) Except in the case of codification or recodification of ordinances and resolutions, a separate vote shall be taken on each ordinance or resolution proposed to be amended.
(c) Ordinances and resolutions that have been introduced and have received their first reading, their first and second reading, or their first, second and third reading but have not been voted on as to passage, may be amended or revised upon approval by a majority vote of the members of Council and such amended or revised ordinance or resolution need not receive additional readings because of such amendments or revisions.
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