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)