A. Presentment Of Ordinances: All ordinances shall be written or printed and presented to the council by a member or a committee at a regular or special meeting.
B. Manner Of Passing: Every such ordinance shall be read at length in meetings of the council on three (3) different days. At each reading of such ordinance, it shall be open to discussion and amendment and may be referred to a committee, and shall be passed to the next reading, unless, by a vote of the council, some other disposition is made of it. On final passage, the yeas and the nays shall be called and recorded and a concurrence of a majority of all the members elected to the council shall be required for its passage. Provided, that three-fourths (3/4) of the members of the council present may dispense with the three (3) readings and pass the ordinance at any meeting.
C. Endorsement After Passage: When such ordinance is passed, it shall be signed by the clerk-treasurer, and the date of its passage by the council shall be added thereto; within three (3) days thereafter, it shall be presented to the mayor, or in case of his absence from the city, to the president of the council, for his consideration. If he approves the same, he shall attach his signature thereto, together with the date of such approval.
D. Veto By Mayor; Passage Over Mayor's Veto: Should the mayor not approve the ordinance, he shall return the same to the council, with his objections to the same in writing, on or before the date of the next regular meeting after the same was presented to him. When an ordinance is so returned by the mayor, the council shall proceed to reconsider the same. If, on such reconsideration, two-thirds (2/3) of the members elected to the council vote in the affirmative, the ordinance shall become a law notwithstanding the mayor's veto.
E. Passage Over Mayor's Veto: When any ordinance has been passed over the mayor's veto as provided in subsection D of this section, the city clerk-treasurer shall annex a certificate to the ordinance stating that the same was vetoed by the mayor, giving the date of such veto, and, that on reconsideration by the council, it received the required two-thirds (2/3) vote of all the members elected to the council, together with the date of such action.
F. Becoming Law Without Mayor's Signature: Should the mayor refuse or neglect to sign any such ordinance or return the same with his objections in writing, on or before the date of the next regular meeting after the same was submitted to him, it shall become a law without his signature.
G. Failure Of Mayor To Sign Or Veto: When any ordinance has become a law without the signature of the mayor, as provided in subsection F of this section, the city clerk-treasurer shall annex to such ordinance a certificate to the effect that the mayor has failed to sign or veto the same, and it has, therefore, become a law without his signature.
H. When Ordinance Passed: An ordinance shall be considered passed on the date of its approval by the mayor, and in case of his vetoing an ordinance, on the date of the passage of such ordinance over his veto, and in the case of the failure of the mayor to sign or veto an ordinance, on the date of the next regular meeting after such ordinance was presented to him.
I. Effective Date: All ordinances, unless otherwise provided in such ordinance, shall take effect and be in force from and after their passage, approval and publication. Publication shall be made by being inserted in one issue of the official paper of the city. (2007 Code)