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CITY OF MASON, OHIO CODE OF ORDINANCES
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TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
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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.
SECTION 4.05 READING OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each ordinance or resolution shall be read fully and distinctly on two separate days with the second reading of any such ordinance or resolution being at least six days after the first reading, provided that:
   A.   The Council may, by a vote of not less than five of its members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution shall be read on two separate days, and authorize the adoption of an ordinance or resolution upon its first reading.
   B.   The Council may, by a vote of not less than five of its members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution shall receive its second reading at least six days after the first reading and authorize its second reading at any earlier time.
   C.   The Council may, by a vote of not less than five of its members, dispense with the requirement that an ordinance or resolution shall be read fully and distinctly for its first or second reading or for both its first and second reading, and authorize it to be read by title only for its first or second or both its first and second reading.
   D.   Motions to dispense with any requirements of this section as authorized by paragraphs A., B., and C. hereof may be separately stated, in which case a separate vote shall be taken on each motion, or may be stated in any combination thereof, in which case only one vote shall be taken.
   E.   Unless approved by a vote of not less than six members of Council, motions authorized by paragraphs A., B., and C. hereof and the provisions of said paragraphs shall not apply to ordinances or resolutions that pertain to zoning classifications, districts or regulations, regulations governing the platting and subdivision of land, the levying of a tax, the incurring of a debt to be evidenced by bonds or notes, or the changing of salaries of members of Council or the Mayor.
SECTION 4.06 VOTE REQUIRED FOR PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance, resolution, and motion shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the Journal, and no ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be passed without concurrence of at least four members of the Council, except that each emergency ordinance or resolution shall require the affirmative vote of at least five members of the Council for its enactment; provided, however, that if such emergency ordinance or resolution shall fail to receive the required five affirmative votes, but receives the necessary majority for passage as a non-emergency ordinance or resolution, it shall be considered passed as a non-emergency ordinance or resolution and shall become effective as hereinafter provided by this Charter. A majority of the members present at any regular or special Council meeting may compel the attendance of absent members as provided in Section 3.08 of this Charter.
SECTION 4.07 CONTENT OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each emergency ordinance or resolution shall determine that said ordinance or resolution is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare, and shall contain a statement of the necessity for such emergency. No ordinance or resolution pertaining to the following matters may be adopted as an emergency measure: zoning classifications, districts or regulations; regulations governing the platting and subdivision of land; the levying of a tax or the incurring of a debt to be evidenced by bonds or notes, unless such tax or debt shall be necessary to provide or replace municipal facilities, equipment or buildings and the need for such facilities, equipment or buildings arises out of a public exigency; or the changing of salaries of members of Council or the Mayor.
SECTION 4.08 EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each ordinance or resolution providing for the appropriation of money, an annual tax levy for current expenses, improvements petitioned for by the owners of the requisite majority of the front footage or of the area of the property benefited and to be especially assessed therefor, submission of any question to the electorate or the determination to proceed with an election, providing for the approval of a revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement of ordinances and resolutions, or publication thereof in book form, and any emergency ordinance or resolution shall take effect, unless a later time be specified therein, immediately upon its passage. No other ordinance or resolution shall go into effect until thirty days following its passage by the Council.
SECTION 4.09 AUTHENTICATION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   Each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor and the Clerk of Council; however, the failure or refusal of such officers to sign such ordinances or resolutions shall not invalidate an otherwise properly enacted ordinance or resolution.
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