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The Council shall choose a Clerk; and such other officers and employees of its own body as are necessary. The Clerk shall keep the records of the Council and perform such other duties as may be required by this Charter or by the Council. All such officers and employees chosen by the Council shall serve during the pleasure thereof.
The Council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members. A majority of all the members elected shall be a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to the Council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution. The vote upon the passage of all ordinances, and upon the adoption of such resolutions as the Council by its rules shall prescribe, shall be taken by "yeas" and "nays" and entered upon the journal.
(A) Submission and Form. Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the Council only in written or printed format, prepared by and approved as to form and signed by the Law Director. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be “Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Lima.” The enacting clause of all ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Lima.” All ordinances or resolutions, other than ordinances making appropriations, and ordinances for the revision and codification of ordinances, shall be confined to one subject which shall be clearly expressed in the title. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subjects of appropriation. The Clerk of Council shall provide copies of all ordinances and resolutions to Council members and the Mayor prior to the Council meetings.
(B) Passage. Ordinances and resolutions may be passed on their first reading if approved by two-thirds of the members elected to Council. If not so approved on first reading, they shall proceed to a second reading at the next Council meeting, and may be passed on second reading by two-thirds of the members elected to Council. If not so approved on second reading, they shall proceed to a third reading at the next Council meeting, and may be passed on third reading by a majority of the members elected to Council. If not so passed on third reading they shall be deemed to be defeated.
(C) Effective Date. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter or by ordinance, all ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after the date of their passage by the Council, subject to the Mayor’s right to veto and the right of referendum. (Amended 5-3-11; 5-7-13)
Ordinances may be revised, codified, rearranged and published in book form under appropriate titles, chapters and sections and such revision and codification may be made in one ordinance containing one or more subjects. The publication of such revision and codification in book form as aforesaid shall be held to be a sufficient publication of the ordinance or several ordinances contained in such revision and codification and so published. Any such publication of a revision or codification of ordinances in book form shall contain a certificate of the President of Council and the Clerk of the correctness of such revision, codification and publication; and such book so published shall be received in evidence in any court for the purpose of proving the ordinance or ordinances therein contained, the same and for the same purpose as the original book, ordinances, minutes or journals would be received.
No section of the codified ordinances of the City shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire codified section revised or amended, and the original ordinance section or sections so amended shall be repealed. (Amended 5-7-13)
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