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Action of Council shall be by ordinance or resolution. Every action of a general or permanent nature or having the force and effect of law, including granting of a franchise, levying a tax, appropriating money, contracting an indebtedness to be evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes, or for the purchase, lease, or transfer of property, shall be taken by ordinance in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be taken by resolution.
Each proposed ordinance shall be introduced in writing by a member of Council in a form prepared by the Solicitor and shall contain a descriptive title and opening clause reading "Be it ordained by the Council of the Village (City) of Forest Park, Ohio" and a body in which there shall be set forth at length the action proposed to be taken. Each ordinance, except an appropriation ordinance, shall contain one subject, which shall be clearly set forth in the title.
Council may, by reference to the date and source, and without reproducing it at length in the ordinance, adopt model or standard codes prepared and published by public or private agencies on such matters as fire prevention, building construction, electrical wiring, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and other similar matters. However, if Council desires to modify, add to, or eliminate from any such code and section or part thereof, such addition, modification, or omission shall be clearly stated in the ordinance, together with a cross reference to its location in the code. In all cases in which such a code shall be adopted by reference, publication by the Municipality of the code in its entirety shall not be required. However, at least one copy of each such code shall be kept in the office of the Manager for examination by interested persons during regular office hours. In the enacting ordinance Council may also provide that any amendments to the incorporated code by the promulgating agency shall also, without further action by Council, be deemed an amendment to the enacting ordinance.
No ordinance or resolution shall be passed without the concurrence of the majority of all members elected or appointed to Council. Before passage, every ordinance shall be fully and distinctly read on two separate days at an official meeting of Council, unless an emergency is declared as hereinafter provided, or unless by vote of two-thirds of all the members of Council a reading thereof in full on two different days is dispensed with, in which cases such ordinance shall be read in full one time at an official meeting and may be passed on the day of such reading. For its second reading, an ordinance may be read by title only upon the vote of majority of the members of Council, provided there has been no change in the text of the ordinance between the first and second readings. Resolutions may be acted upon immediately after a single reading.
Council may, in its discretion, determine that ordinances or resolutions be presented in written form and copies filed with each Council member, the Clerk of Council and also posted in the official posting places, six days prior to the Council meeting when the matter is to be considered. If said ordinance or resolution is so presented then Council may, by vote of a majority of its members, suspend the rules of Council and authorize the ordinance or resolution to be read by title only without a reading in full.
Every vote upon every ordinance or upon other matters as to which any member shall so demand, shall be taken upon a roll call and entered upon the journal. Council may, by ordinance, adopt rules not inconsistent with this Charter for governing its own proceedings, and for all other matters pertaining to the exercise of its powers in the performance of its duties. Passage of every ordinance and every resolution shall be certified by the signatures of the Mayor, or Vice Mayor, and the Clerk of Council. The Clerk of Council shall record all ordinances and resolutions, in full, in separate ordinance and resolution volumes, which shall be a public record available for examination, upon request, in the Clerk of Council office by interested persons during regular office hours.
(Amend. Ord. 54-75, approved by voters 11-4-75; Charter amendment approved by voters 11-20-90)
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