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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)
All ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after thirty (30) days from the date of their passage by the Council except as otherwise provided in this Charter. The Council may by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to the Council, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated in the emergency measure. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a Municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble. Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its services by any public utility, shall ever be so passed.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
Any ordinance or resolution passed by the Council shall be signed by the President or other presiding officer and presented forthwith to the Mayor by the Clerk. If the Mayor approves such ordinance or resolution he shall sign it within ten (10) days after its passage or adoption by the Council but if he does not approve it, he shall return it to the Council with his objections within said ten (10) days, or if the Council be not then in session, at the next regular meeting thereof, which objections the Council shall cause to be entered in full on its Journal. If the Mayor does not sign or veto an ordinance or resolution after its passage or adoption, within the time specified, it shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or part of any ordinance or resolution appropriating money. When the Mayor refuses to sign an ordinance or resolution or part thereof and returns it to the Council with his objections, the Council shall, after the expiration of not less than one week, proceed to reconsider it and, if upon reconsideration, the resolution or ordinance or part or item thereof disapproved by the Mayor be approved by the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to the Council it shall take effect without the signature of the Mayor. In all such cases the votes shall be taken by “yeas” and “nays” and entered on the Journal.
(Effective November 9, 1931)
The tax rate which may be levied without a vote of the people for the current operating expenses of the City, including therein the levies for police and fire pensions, is hereby limited to eight and thirty-five hundredths (8.35) mills per dollar of assessed value upon property listed and assessed for taxation according to value upon the duplicate of property in the City of Cleveland; provided that said limitations may be exceeded for current operating expenses in each of the years 1968, 1969, and 1970, by not more than five and eight-tenths (5.8) mills. This limitation shall apply only to taxes levied against property so listed and assessed.
(Effective November 21, 1967)
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