Section 7.1 ORDINANCE ENACTMENT.
   (a)   The Council is empowered to adopt, continue, amend or repeal village ordinances.
   (b)   All legislation of the Village of Lake Orion shall be by ordinance or by resolution. The word “Resolution” as used in this Charter shall be the official action of the Council 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 makers pertaining to the internal affairs or concerns of the village government. All other acts of the Council, 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, and, except for emergency ordinances, a synopsis published not less than fifteen (15) days prior to its enactment in some legal newspaper of general circulation in the village. 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 President and Clerk to authenticate such record by their official signatures thereon. The style of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be, “The Village of Lake Orion Ordains.”
   (c)   The Council is empowered to pass an emergency ordinance so as to be given immediate effect. Such ordinance shall contain a declaration of such emergency and the reasons therefor and can be passed only upon the affirmative vote of five (5) councilmen. Any such ordinance shall be limited to be effective for a period of not more than sixty (60) days from the adoption thereof and any such ordinance shall not be effective beyond such sixty (60) day period unless such emergency ordinance has been enacted as a regular ordinance in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
(Adopted 3-13-67)