Section 3.14 PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES IN GENERAL.
   (1)   The City Council shall legislate by ordinance only, and the enacting clause of every ordinance shall be “Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Gun Barrel City, Texas.” Each proposed ordinance shall be introduced in the written or printed form required for adoption. No ordinance shall contain more than one (1) subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title. General appropriation ordinances may contain various subjects and accounts for which monies are to be appropriated. After adoption, an ordinance shall not be amended or repealed except by the adoption of another ordinance amending or repealing the original ordinance. Except where an ordinance is repealed in its entirety, the amendatory or repealing ordinance shall set out in full the ordinance sections or subsections to be amended or repealed and shall show new language in bold type and omitted language in strike through marks. Copies of proposed ordinances, in the form required for adoption, shall be furnished to members of the City Council before the first reading. Copies of the proposed ordinance, in the forms required for adoption, shall be available at the City offices and shall be furnished citizens upon request to the City Secretary from and after the date on which such proposed ordinance is posted as an agenda item for a city council meeting and, if amended, shall be available and furnished in amended form for as long as the proposed ordinance is before the City Council.
   (2)   A proposed ordinance which has been amended in substance after its placement on the agenda for a city council meeting may not be voted on at such meeting. Such amended ordinance shall be placed upon the agenda of a subsequent meeting of the City Council in accordance with the provisions of this Article. All persons interested in such ordinance shall have a reasonable opportunity to be heard.
   (3)   Every ordinance shall become effective upon adoption or at any later time(s) specified in the ordinance, except that every ordinance imposing any penalty, fine or forfeiture shall become effective only after having been published once in its entirety or summary form after adoption, in a newspaper designated as the official newspaper of the City.
   (4)   The reading aloud of a title and caption of the ordinance shall suffice as a reading provided printed copies of the ordinance in the form required for adoption are in front of all members of the City Council and a reasonable number of additional copies are available to citizens present at the meeting. If a majority of the members present request that the ordinance be read in its entirety, it must be read.