(A) Action of Council shall be by ordinance, resolution or motion. Every action of a general and permanent nature or granting a franchise, or levying a tax, or appropriating money, or contracting a debt, or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property, or establishing an offense and fixing a penalty therefor shall betaken by ordinance or resolution. All other action may be by motion. Any member of Council may, at a regular or special meeting, introduce any ordinance, resolution or motion.
(B) Except on procedural motions, voting shall be by roll call and the ayes and nays shall be recorded in the journal. The affirmative votes of at least a majority of the membership shall be required for every action.
(C) Every ordinance shall be fully and distinctly read on three different days, unless each member has previously been furnished a copy thereof, in which case it can be read by title only. By a vote of five members, Council can suspend the rule requiring the reading of an ordinance on three different days.
(D) Except as otherwise provided in the Charter, each ordinance approved by the Council will be effective at the end of 30 days following passage, or such longer period as is determined by the Council. If the Council determines that an ordinance should be passed on an emergency basis, the reasons for declaring such ordinances to be an emergency measure shall be set forth in one section of the ordinance which section shall be passed only upon an aye and nay vote upon a separate roll call with at least five of the members voting affirmatively. No ordinance prescribing rates and charges by a public utility, or granting a franchise, or levying a tax, shall be passed as an emergency measure. An emergency ordinance shall become effective immediately upon passage, or at such later time as it may specify.
(E) Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced in writing. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title. The opening clause of the ordinance shall be "Be it ordained by the Council of Lincoln Heights, Ohio . . ." Any ordinance which repeals or amends an existing ordinance or part of the Municipal Administrative Code shall set out in full the ordinance, sections or subsections to be repealed or amended.
(Ord. 97-O-48, passed 7-30-1997)
Cross-reference:
Council procedures, ordinances, see Charter § 2.11(d)