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No ordinance or resolution, or any section or subsection thereof, shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance, resolution or section or subsection, as revised or amended, and the ordinance, resolution or section or subsection so amended shall be repealed. This requirement shall not prevent the amendment of an ordinance or resolution by the addition of a new section, sections, subsection or subsections and in such case the full text of the ordinance or resolution being so amended need not be set forth.
Except in the case of a codification or recodification of ordinances and resolutions, a separate vote shall be taken on each ordinance or resolution proposed to be amended.
Ordinances and resolutions that have been introduced and have received their first reading, their first and second reading, or their first, second and third reading, but have not been voted upon as to passage, may be amended or revised upon approval by a majority vote of the members of Council, and such amended or revised ordinance or resolution need not receive additional readings.
Each ordinance or resolution establishing, amending, revising, changing or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses, or regulations shall be referred to the Planning Commission immediately after its introduction. Within sixty days of such referral the Planning Commission shall cause such ordinance or resolution to be returned to the Clerk of Council together with the written recommendations of the majority of the members of such Commission.
No such ordinance or resolution which violates, differs from, or departs from the written recommendation of the Planning Commission shall take effect unless passed and approved by a majority vote of members of Council.
(Amended 11-5-91; 5-8-01)
Council shall hold a public hearing on each ordinance or resolution establishing, amending, revising, changing or repealing zoning classifications, districts, uses, or regulations, which hearing shall be held after the Planning Commission has returned its written recommendations to the Clerk of Council, as required in Section 4.12. The Clerk of Council shall cause a notice of such public hearing to be published one time in a newspaper determined by the Council to be of circulation within the City at least fifteen days prior to the date of such public hearing, which notice shall contain the title of such ordinance or resolution and a brief description of any property to be zoned or rezoned. When such amendment, revision, change, or repeal involves ten or less parcels of land, as listed on the tax duplicate, written notice of the hearing shall be mailed by the Clerk of Council, by first class mail, at least fifteen days before the date of the public hearing, to the owners of property within and contiguous to and directly across the street from such parcel or parcels to the addresses of such owners appearing on the County Auditor's current tax list or the Treasurer's mailing list and to such other lists as may be required by the Council. Such written notice shall contain the title of such ordinance or resolution and a brief description of any property to be zoned or rezoned. The failure of delivery of such notice shall not invalidate any such ordinance or resolution.
(Amended 11-8-22)
Council may, by ordinance, adopt standard ordinances and codes, including any amendments thereto as provided in the adopting ordinance, prepared by the State or any department, board or other agency or subdivision of the State, or any standard or model ordinance or code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization, including but not limited to codes and regulations pertaining to fire, fire hazards, fire prevention, plumbing code, electrical code, building code, refrigeration machinery code, piping code, boiler code, heating code, air conditioning code, housing code, and such other matters as the Council may determine to be appropriate for adoption by reference, by incorporation by reference.
The ordinance adopting any such standard ordinance or code shall make reference to the date and source of such standard ordinance or code without reproducing the same at length in the ordinance. In such cases, publication of the standard ordinance or code shall not be required, but one copy of such code shall be kept at all times in the office of the Clerk of Council and available for sale by said Clerk.
(Amended 11-5-91; 5-8-01)
By a majority vote of the members of Council, the Council may cause the ordinances and resolutions of the City to be revised, codified, recodified, rearranged, published in book form, or indexed. Such revisions, codification, recodification, rearrangement or publication of ordinances and resolutions in book form shall be immediately effective upon approval of a majority vote of the members of Council, and may contain new matter therein. The Clerk of Council shall cause a notice of such proposed revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement, or publication of ordinances and resolutions in book form to be published one time in a newspaper determined by the Council to be of circulation within the City, at least seven days prior to the final approval thereof by the Council, and no further publication shall be necessary. A current service supplementing such revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement or publication of ordinances and resolutions in book form shall be maintained in the manner prescribed by the Council.
Within five years after the adoption of this Charter, and at least every five years thereafter, the Council shall cause the ordinances and resolutions of the City to be codified or recodified. Copies of the codified ordinances and resolutions of the City shall be made available to the public for purchase at prices to be established by the Council; however, such copies shall be made available to libraries and governmental offices for public reference without charge, and City officers shall receive such copies without charge.
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