A. Public Inspection Of Ordinances And Resolutions: Every ordinance or resolution appropriating any money shall remain on file with the city clerk for public inspection at least ten (10) days before the final passage or adoption thereof.
B. Ordinances:
1. Passage: All ordinances presented to the council shall be placed upon passage by motion of a member thereof, on which there shall be a roll call, and each member of the council shall vote "yea" or "nay" thereon. If three (3) members of the council shall vote yea on the motion to pass, then said ordinance shall be passed; but before it shall take effect, it shall be signed by the mayor or any two (2) commissioners and recorded by the city clerk in the book of ordinances.
2. Publication: The city clerk shall cause every ordinance of the council making any appropriation or imposing any fine, penalty or forfeiture to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, within thirty (30) days after the passage thereof.
3. Memorandum On Each Ordinance: The city clerk shall make, at the foot of the record of each ordinance, a memorandum of the date of its passage, the signing of the same by the mayor, or commissioners, the date of the recording, and of the publication of the same. (Ord. 11, 12-2-1929; amd. 2013 Code)
4. Effective Date: All ordinances shall take effect from and after their passage, signing and recording, except such ordinances as are, by law, required to be published, and all such ordinances shall take effect ten (10) days from and after their publication as required by law, and except, further, when certain ordinances are required to be submitted to a vote of the people, then and in that case, such ordinances shall take effect and become valid and binding when the same have been ratified by a vote of the people as provided by law.
5. Filing: All ordinances passed by the council shall be deposited in the office of the city clerk and become a part of the files of his office.
6. Preservation; Correction Of Errors: The city clerk shall file and carefully preserve the originals of all ordinances deposited in his office. He may correct any errors in the numbering of any ordinance or sections thereof, and insert the proper numbers; and he may omit words inserted by clerical mistake or supply with brackets words omitted by clerical mistake.
7. Repealed Ordinances In Force: Whenever any ordinance or any part thereof shall be repealed or modified by a subsequent ordinance, the ordinance or part so repealed or modified shall continue in force until the taking effect of the ordinance repealing or modifying the same. No ordinance or part thereof repealed by the council shall be deemed to be revived by the repeal of the repealing ordinance, unless it shall be therein so expressly provided. (Ord. 11, 12-2-1929)
A. Description: A seal, in circular form, with the words, "City of Marion, Williamson County, Illinois", shall be the seal of the city, to be used in all cases that have been or shall be hereafter provided by law or the ordinances of the city, and in all cases in which it is or may become necessary to use a seal by the corporation. In no case shall the impression of the corporate seal be binding upon the city unless it is authorized by law or the ordinances of the city and is attested by the official signature of the city clerk. (1977 Code § 1.12.010)
B. Custodian: The corporate seal shall be and remain in the custody of the city clerk and his successors in office, to be used by him in all cases provided by the ordinances of the city. (1977 Code § 1.12.020)