The style of the ordinances shall be:
(A) Publication requirements. All ordinances of said city imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment, or forfeiture or making any appropriation shall, within 30 days after the passage thereof, be published at least once in a newspaper therein, and no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after the passage thereof; provided, nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to apply to any ordinance included in any revision or codification of ordinances which may be collectively published in book or pamphlet form by authority of said Council. And all other ordinances, orders, and resolutions shall take effect from and after their passage unless otherwise provided therein.
(B) Recording of ordinances and resolutions. All ordinances or written resolutions passed by the Council of said city shall be deposited in the office of the City Clerk and shall be duly recorded by the Clerk in a record book of ordinances and appropriately indexed by their titles or subjects. It shall be his or her duty to see that the proper ordinances are correctly printed and published. Said Clerk shall make, at the foot of the record of each ordinance recorded as aforesaid, the memorandum of the date of its passage and of the publication of such ordinance (when required to be published), which recording of memorandum or certified copy thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the passage and publication of ordinances for all purposes whatsoever.
(C) Reading of ordinances. All ordinances proposed for adoption shall, before submission to a vote of the Council, be read in full by the City Clerk or someone on his or her behalf; thereafter, if amendments, modifications, or changes to said ordinance be proposed, such proposed amendments, modifications, or changes shall be severally submitted to a vote by the Council, and such of them as may be accepted shall be considered a part of the ordinance as originally proposed; thereafter, upon motion, the ordinance, as modified, amended, or changed, shall be submitted to the Council for adoption, and the Clerk shall record the yeas and nays upon the motion, and if the requisite yea votes are received, the ordinance shall be deemed adopted, subject to approval by the Mayor.
(D) Three readings of ordinances. The preferred method of passing ordinances of the city is hereby declared to be by three readings: each ordinance to be read in full for first reading at the first meeting it is presented to the Council; to be read in full for the second reading; and by title only for third reading and passage at the next Council meeting after its first reading. It is preferred that this requirement be waived by the Council only by motion in the minutes. The requirements of three readings are informal only and not mandatory nor required for any particular ordinance. Failure to comply with the three-reading requirement shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any ordinance.
(Prior Code, Chapter 4, Article 4) (Ord. 13 (Series 1947-1948), passed - -; Ord. 14 (Series 1978-1979), passed - -)