SECTION
1. Ordaining clause.
2. Steps required to be taken before ordinances can take effect; emergency ordinances.
3. Signatures required; filing of ordinances.
4. Publication of ordinances.
Editor’s note:
Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1 deleted in its entirety Article VI, titled Ordinances, and replaced it with a new Article VI by the same title.
Be it further enacted, that every ordinance shall be read three (3) different days in open session before its adoption.
An ordinance shall not take effect until fifteen (15) days after the first passage thereof, except in case of an emergency ordinance. An emergency ordinance may become effective upon the day of its final passage.
The unanimous vote of all members of the council present shall be required to pass an emergency ordinance.
No ordinance making a grant, renewal, or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency ordinance. No ordinance shall be amended except by a new ordinance. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)
Be it further enacted, that upon final passage of every ordinance and resolution, they shall be signed by the mayor or mayor pro tem, in the absence of the mayor, and shall thereupon be delivered to the city clerk whose duty it shall be to number and copy same in an ordinance book to be kept for that purpose, together with the signature of the mayor and councilmembers. (As amended by Priv. Acts 1995, ch. 55, secs. 3 and 4, and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)
Be it further enacted, that all ordinances of a penal nature passed shall be published at least once in a newspaper of the city and on the City's official web site, and no such ordinance shall be in force until so published, and no other ordinance or resolution, except as herein expressly provided, shall be required to be published to be effective. Alternatively, if permitted by law, the ordinance may be posted on the City's official web site for fourteen (14) days before enactment. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)