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At seven o'clock p.m., on the first Monday in January following a regular Municipal election, the Council shall meet at the usual place for holding meetings, at which time the newly-elected members of the Council shall assume the duties of their offices; provided however, that if the first Monday in January following a regular Municipal election falls on a legal holiday, the Council shall meet at the usual place for holding meetings at seven o'clock p.m. the next business day following that holiday, at which time the newly-elected members of the Council shall assume the duties of their offices. Thereafter the Council shall meet at times as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution. The Mayor, the President of the Council, or any five members of Council may call special meetings of the Council upon at least twelve (12) hours' written notice to each member of the Council, served personally on each member or left at the usual place of residence of the member. Any notice shall state the subjects to be considered at the meeting and no other subjects shall be considered. All meetings of the Council or committees shall be public and any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records at all reasonable times.
(Effective April 28, 2020)
The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a Journal of its proceedings. It may punish or expel any member for disorderly conduct or violation of its rules. No expulsion shall take place without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected nor until the delinquent member shall have been notified of the charge against him and been given an opportunity to be heard.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
At the first meeting in January following a regular Municipal election, the Council shall elect one of its members President who shall preside at meetings of the Council and perform such duties as presiding officer as may be imposed upon him by the Council. In the absence of the President the Council shall elect a President pro tempore.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council shall choose a Clerk and such other officers and employees of its own body as are necessary. The Clerk shall keep the records of the Council and perform such other duties as may be required by this Charter or by the Council. All such officers and employees chosen by the Council shall serve during the pleasure thereof.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The Council shall be the judge of the election and qualification of its members. A majority of all the members elected shall be a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to the Council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution. The vote upon the passage of all ordinances, and upon the adoption of such resolutions as the Council by its rules shall prescribe, shall be taken by “yeas” and “nays” and entered upon the Journal.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the Council only in electronic, digital, written or printed form. All ordinances or resolutions, except ordinances making appropriations, shall be confined to one subject which shall be clearly expressed in the title, except as provided in the next section. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subjects of appropriation. No ordinance shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days unless the requirement of reading on three separate days has been dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the Council. The final reading shall be in full unless an electronic, digital, written or printed copy of the measure is furnished to each member of the Council prior to the reading. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be “Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Cleveland.” The enacting clause of all ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Cleveland.”
(Effective May 6, 2014)
Ordinances may be revised, codified, rearranged and published in book form under appropriate titles, chapters and sections and such revision and codification may be made in one ordinance containing one or more subjects. The publication of such revision and codification in book form as aforesaid shall be held to be a sufficient publication of the ordinance or several ordinances contained in such revision and codification and so published. Any such publication of a revision or codification of ordinances in book form shall contain a certificate of the President of Council and the Clerk of the correctness of such revision, codification and publication and such book so published shall be received in evidence in any court for the purpose of proving the ordinance or ordinances therein contained, the same and for the same purpose as the original book, ordinances, minutes or journals would be received.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution or section revised or amended, and the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections so amended shall be repealed.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
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