Section 1. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall read “The City of Grand Blanc Ordains,” but such caption may be omitted when said ordinances are published in book form, or are revised and digested by authority of the Council.
Section 2. The adoption of an ordinance by the Council shall require for its passage the concurrence of a majority of the members of the Council.
Section 3. The time when any ordinance shall take effect shall be prescribed therein, which time shall not be less than twenty days from the date of the passage, except as provided in Section 9 of Chapter 7 of this Charter.
Section 4. All ordinances shall be published once within two weeks after their passage, in a newspaper published and circulated within the City, in case of no newspaper there shall be ten notices put up in public places, and the City Clerk shall certify on the record of ordinances the date of publication and the name of the newspaper in which any ordinance was so published or the date and places of posting thereof and such certificate shall be prima facie evidence that legal publication of such ordinance has been made.
Section 5. No ordinance shall be finally passed on the day it is introduced, except in case of public emergency, and then only on request of the Mayor in writing.
Section 6. All ordinances shall be recorded in an index book marked “Ordinance Record” and the record of each ordinance shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor and City Clerk. Such record and authentication shall be made within two weeks after the final passage of any ordinance, but failure to so record and authenticate any ordinance shall not invalidate it or suspend its operation.
Section 7. Immediately upon the final passage of any ordinance the Mayor and City Clerk shall sign the same under a certificate of the day and date of its passage.
Section 8. Ordinances submitted to the Council by initiative petition, and passed by the Council without change or passed in an amended form and not required to be submitted to a vote of the electors by the committee of the petitioners, shall be subject to the referendum in the same manner as other ordinances.
Section 9. If the provision of two or more ordinances adopted or approved at the same election conflict, the ordinance receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail.
Section 10. Ordinances passed as emergency measures shall be subject to referendum in like manner as other ordinances, except that they shall go into effect at the time indicated in such ordinances. If, when submitted to a vote of the electors, an emergency measure be not approved by a majority of those voting thereon, it shall be considered repealed as regards any further action thereunder; but such measure so repealed shall be deemed sufficient authority for payment, in accordance with the ordinance, of any expense incurred previous to the referendum vote thereon.
Section 11. In case a petition be filed requiring that a measure passed by the Council providing for a franchise, an expenditure of money, a bond issue, or a public improvement, be submitted to a vote of the electors all steps preliminary to the actual granting of such franchise, to such actual expenditure, actual issuance of bonds, or actual execution of a contract for which improvements may be taken prior to the election, but nothing shall be done which will bind the City by the action of the Council.
Section 12. Any franchise, ordinance, resolution, proposed public improvement, or contemplated public measure, affecting the general health or welfare of the City, passed by the Council may be referred by the Council to the qualified electors of the City; and no measure so referred shall become operative unless approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon.
Section 13. Whenever it shall be necessary to prove any laws, regulations or ordinances of this City, or any resolutions adopted by the Council thereof, the same may be read in all courts and in all proceedings before any tribunal; first, from a record thereof kept by the Clerk; second, from a copy of the ordinance or of the record thereof, certified by the Clerk, under the corporate seal of the City; third, from any compilation of ordinances or an individual ordinance purporting to have been written or printed by authority of the Council.
Section 14. Whenever a penalty shall be incurred for the violation of any ordinance, and no provision shall be made for imprisonment of the offender upon conviction thereof, or when a corporation shall incur a penalty for the violation of any such ordinance, the same shall be sued for in the Justice Court of the City or in any other Court of competent jurisdiction by an action at law.
Section 15. Prosecution for violation of the ordinances shall be commenced within two years after the commission of the offense, and shall be brought within the City. Any Municipal Court or justice of the peace of the City shall have the authority to hear, try and determine all causes and suits arising under the ordinances of the City, and to inflict punishment for violations thereof as provided in the ordinance.