All legislation of the City of Imlay City shall be by ordinance or by resolution. The word “resolution” as used in this charter shall be the official action of the Commission in the form of a motion, and such action shall be limited to matters required or permitted to be done by resolution by this charter or by state or Federal law and to matters pertaining to the internal affairs or concerns of the city government. All other acts of the Commission, and all acts carrying a penalty for the violation thereof, shall be by ordinance. Each ordinance shall be identified by a number and a short title. Each proposed ordinance shall be introduced in written or printed form. The style of all ordinances passed by the Commission shall be, “The City of Imlay City Ordains.” Except in the case of ordinances which are declared by the Commission to be emergency ordinances, no ordinances shall be finally passed by the Commission at the same meeting at which it is introduced. No ordinance shall be revised, altered or amended by reference to its title only, but the section or sections of the ordinance revised, altered or amended shall be reenacted and published at length and all ordinances, when enacted shall be immediately recorded by the Clerk in a book called “The Ordinance Book;” and it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Clerk to authenticate such record by their official signature thereon.
An ordinance may be repealed only by an ordinance passed in the manner provided in this section except that the ordinance to be repealed may be referred to by its number and title only.
The commission shall provide in each ordinance for the punishment of those who violate its provisions. No punishment for the violation of any City ordinance or for the commission by any officer of the City of any act declared by this Charter to constitute misconduct in office shall exceed a fine of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for 90 days, or both in the discretion of the court, except that any officer of the City found guilty of any act declared by this Charter to constitute misconduct in office, shall, in addition to such fine or imprisonment, or both, forfeit his office.
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