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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or section revised or amended, and the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections so amended shall be repealed.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)
Without prejudice to the use of other funds from taxes or other sources available for such purposes the Council may levy in any year not to exceed two-tenths (2/10ths) of a mill outside of the total levy limited by Section 37-1 but within the ten mill limitation, for the purpose only of specific public improvements and equipment having an estimated useful life of five years or longer including but not limited to those for police and fire, City hospital, recreational, and garbage and waste collection purposes. No such levy shall be made unless it includes a levy for the purpose of the equipment of the police and fire forces of the City in an amount not less than one-half of the total of such levy.
(Effective March 29, 1940)
The Council shall annually levy a sufficient sum to pay the interest, Sinking Fund and retirement charges on all bonds and notes of the City of Cleveland lawfully issued, and the expenses incident to the management of the Sinking Fund, which entire levy shall be outside of limitations provided in this Charter, but subject to limitations imposed by general law, and placed before and in preference to all other levies. Amounts certified under the laws of the State as necessary for such purpose shall not be subject to change by Council.
(Effective March 29, 1940)
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