(A) At the first meeting in July of the City Council following any general and regular city election, the City Council shall, by resolution, pass and adopt such rules of procedure and order of business as may be deemed necessary to ensure orderly, efficient and lawful conduct of its affairs, and the rules, when so adopted, shall constitute the standing rules to govern proceedings at all regular and special meetings of the City Council, provided that provision may be made in the rules for amending, temporarily suspending or rescinding any rule or portion thereof. Additional rules may further be adopted from time to time at the discretion of the City Council.
(B) Except as may otherwise be required by law, all ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be fully and distinctly read aloud, by title only, on three different days unless three-fourths of all members of the City Council vote to suspend this requirement. In case the requirement shall be suspended, the ordinance shall be read by title or number and then moved for final passage.
(C) All resolutions shall contain a title which shall briefly describe and explain the content of the respective resolution and all resolutions shall contain no subject which shall not be clearly expressed in the title. The resolution shall be read by title or number and then moved for final passage.
(D) Three-fourths of all members of the City Council may require any ordinance or resolution to be fully and distinctly read aloud in full before enactment under any of the procedures set out in this section. All ordinances shall be published in full as provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 30.20) (Ord. 92-03, passed 2-3-1992; Ord. 05-06, passed 3-7-2005; Ord. 06-19, passed 6-19-2006)
Statutory reference:
Three readings required for all annexation ordinances, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-404