(a) Form. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced in writing and in the form required for final adoption. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title. The enacting clause shall be "The Council of the City of Fairborn hereby ordains. . .". Any ordinance which repeals or amends an existing ordinance or part of the City code shall set out in full the ordinance, sections or subsections to be repealed or amended, and shall indicate matter to be omitted by enclosing it in brackets or by strikeout type and shall indicate new matter by underscoring or by italics.
(b) Procedure. An ordinance may be introduced by any member at any regular or special meeting of the Council. Upon introduction of any ordinance, the City Clerk shall distribute a copy to each Council member and to the City Manager, shall file copies in the office of the City Clerk in such number and in such other public places as the Council may designate, and shall publish the ordinance together with a notice setting out the time and place of a public hearing thereon and for its consideration by the Council. No ordinance, unless it is declared an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days, the first and second reading of which may be by title only, and if such measure is typed and a copy thereof placed on the desk of each member, the third reading may be by title only. The rule requiring every ordinance to be read on three separate days may be suspended by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of the members elected or appointed to Council, taken by "yeas" and "nays" on each ordinance and entered on the journal. The public hearing shall follow the publication by at least five days, may be held separately or in connection with a regular or special Council meeting and may be adjourned from time to time; all persons interested shall have an opportunity to be heard. After the hearing the Council may adopt the ordinance with or without amendment or reject it but, if it is amended as to any matter of substance, the Council may not adopt it until the ordinance or its amended sections have been subjected to all the procedures hereinbefore required in the case of a newly introduced ordinance or the rules are suspended as herein provided. As soon as practicable after adoption of any ordinance, the Clerk shall have it published again together with a notice of its adoption.
(c) Effective Date. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, every adopted ordinance and resolution having the force and effect of law shall become effective at the expiration of 30 days after adoption or at any later date specified therein.
(d) "Publish" Defined. As used in this section, the word "publish" means to print in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the City: (1) the ordinance or a brief summary thereof, and (2) the places where copies of it have been filed and the times when they are available for public inspection.
(Amended 11-8-88)
(Amended 11-8-88)