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ARTICLE IV: LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
SECTION 4.01 ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION.
   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 an indebtedness, to be evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes; or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property; or establishing an offense and fixing the penalty therefor shall be taken by ordinance or resolution in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be by motion.
SECTION 4.02 INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Any member of Council may, at a regular or special meeting, introduce any ordinance or resolution.
SECTION 4.03 STYLE OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each ordinance shall contain an enacting clause as follows: “Be It Ordained By The Council Of The Municipality of Mason, State of Ohio,:” and each resolution shall contain an enacting clause as follows: “Be It Resolved by the Council of the Municipality of Mason, State of Ohio.”
SECTION 4.04 SUBJECT OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each ordinance or resolution shall contain only one subject which shall be expressed in its title, provided however, that appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects, accounts, and amounts for which monies are appropriated, and that ordinances and resolutions which are codified or recodified are not subject to the limitation of containing one subject.
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