3.09 Legislative Procedure.

   Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the Council only in written or printed form. All ordinances except ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codifying, revising, or rearranging existing ordinances shall be germane to one subject, and the subject, or subjects, of all ordinances shall be clearly expressed in the title. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed until it has been read by title only on two separate days, unless the requirement of reading it on two separate days shall be dispensed with by a vote of not less than six members of Council. The final reading of each ordinance shall be in full unless a written or printed copy thereof shall have been furnished to each member of the Council prior to the reading or unless the Council shall by a majority vote of its members authorize the reading by title only. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and entered upon the Journal of the proceedings of the Council. The enacting clause of ordinances or resolutions passed by the Council shall be, "Be it ordained or resolved by the Council of the City of Hamilton." The enacting clause of ordinances or resolutions submitted by the initiative shall be, "Be it ordained or resolved by the people of the City of Hamilton."