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Each ordinance shall contain an enacting clause as follows: "Be It Ordained By The Council Of The Municipality of Canfield, State of Ohio," and each resolution shall contain an enacting clause as follows: "Be It Resolved By The Council of the Municipality of Canfield, State of Ohio."
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.
Each ordinance or resolution shall be read fully and distinctly on two (2) separate days. The Council may, by vote of four (4) members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution be read on two (2) separate days, and authorize the adoption of an ordinance or resolution upon its first reading; and the Council may, by a majority vote of all members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution be read fully and distinctly for its first or second reading or for both its first and second reading, and authorize such reading or readings to be by title only. Motions to dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution be read on two (2) separate days and motions to dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution shall be read fully and distinctly shall be separately stated and a separate vote shall be taken on each such motion.
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 all members of the Council, except that each emergency ordinance or resolution shall require the affirmative vote of at least four (4) members of the Council for its enactment; provided, however, that if such emergency ordinance or resolution shall fail to receive the required affirmative vote of four (4) members, 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 as provided in Section 3.12 of this Charter.
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.
Each ordinance or resolution providing for the appropriation of money, an annual tax levy for current expenses, improvements petitioned for by the owners of the requisite majority of the front footage or of the area of the property benefitted and to be especially assessed therefor, submission of any question to the electorate or the determination to proceed with an election, providing for the approval of a revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement of ordinances and resolutions, or publication thereof in book form, a preliminary or final resolution of removal of the manager, 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 (30) days following its passage by the Council.
Each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the President of Council and the Clerk of Council; however, the failure or refusal of such officers to sign such ordinances or resolutions shall not invalidate an otherwise properly enacted ordinance or resolution.
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