(A) An ordinance or ordinance amendments may be proposed by any member of Council. The City Administrator shall render assistance in the preparation of ordinances upon request of members of Council. Any member of Council submitting a request for the preparation of an ordinance shall submit the following in writing to the City Administrator:
(1) Statement of Purpose, which contains:
(a) What? The subject of the ordinance.
(b) Why? The intent of the ordinance.
(c) Who? Enforcement responsibil- ities.
(d) When? The effective date.
(e) Where? Area affected.
(f) Impact? Ordinance shall be staffed through the City Administrator to determine the impact, if known, to city revenues, expenditures and/or personnel.
(B) After the ordinance is in proper form, it shall be submitted to the City Attorney for review.
(C) An ordinance is considered to be introduced when it appears on an agenda, or is added to an agenda, for a public meeting of Council and its title is read.
(D) The enacting clause of all ordinances and ordinance amendments shall be "The City Council of Folly Beach, duly assembled, hereby ordains..."
(E) All ordinances or amendments thereto shall receive two readings prior to adoption. There shall be at least six days between first and final reading of any ordinance. Any proposed amendments or changes to an ordinance under consideration shall be made on the first reading of the ordinance or amendment.
(F) To meet public emergencies affecting life, health, safety or the property of the people, Council may adopt emergency ordinances, but ordinances shall not levy taxes, grant, renew or extend a franchise or impose or change a service rate. Every emergency ordinance shall be enacted by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of Council present. An emergency ordinance is effective immediately upon its enactment without regard to any reading, public hearing, publication requirements or public notice requirements. Emergency ordinances shall expire automatically as of the sixty-first day following the date of enactment.
(G) The introduction and reading of any ordinance shall be the reading of the title only unless full reading is requested by a member of Council.
(H) After the introduction of an ordinance, a member of Council may request a public hearing which may be held if approved by a majority of Council present and set for a time prior to final adoption of the ordinance. A public hearing may be held on the same date as the final reading.
(I) An ordinance may be amended on final reading if the original intent of the ordinance is not changed nor significantly altered.
(J) New ordinances shall be posted on the city website until published in the Folly Beach Code of Ordinances.
(K) Upon final adoption by vote of Council, an ordinance shall be signed by the Mayor or presiding member of Council and attested by the Municipal Clerk, who shall file the original with the minutes in the permanent public records.
(L) The Municipal Clerk shall send all ordinances, which are required to be published in the Folly Beach Code of Ordinances, to the publishing company to be codified on a quarterly basis. Copies of all ordinances shall be available for public inspection and purchase at a reasonable cost.
(Ord. 26-08, passed 9-23-08; Am. Ord. 11-15, passed 4-26-11; Am. Ord. 27-14, passed 1-13-15)