A. Procedure: All ordinances of the city shall be typewritten or printed and presented to the council by a member at any regular or special meeting. Every such ordinance shall be read at the meeting of the council on three (3) different days. At each reading, the ordinance shall be open to discussion and amendment or may be referred to a committee unless, by majority vote, other disposition is made. All ordinances which have been amended shall, after the second reading, be engrossed by the clerk- treasurer as amended. On final passage, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded, and a concurrence of a majority of the full council shall be required for passage; provided, however, that the vote of one-half (1/2) plus one member of the council may dispense with the portion of this subsection requiring all ordinances to be read on three (3) different days, and on the vote upon the motion to dispense with this rule, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded.
B. Signatures; Mayor Approval Or Veto: When any ordinance is passed, it shall be signed by the clerk-treasurer, and the date of its passage by the council shall be added thereto, and it shall, within three (3) days thereafter, be presented to the mayor, or in case of his absence from the city, to the president of the council for his approval. If he approves the same, he shall affix his signature thereto.
C. Passage Over Veto: Should the mayor not approve the ordinance, he shall, before the next regular meeting after such ordinance is presented to him for his approval, return the ordinance to the council with his objections in writing. When any ordinance is so returned by the mayor, it shall be reconsidered by the council at the first regular meeting thereafter. If, on such reconsideration, a majority of the members of the full council shall vote in the affirmative, the ordinance shall become a law notwithstanding the mayor's veto. The clerk-treasurer, in such cases, shall annex a certificate to the ordinance stating the same was vetoed by the mayor, and that, on its reconsideration, it received the required majority of votes.
D. Failure Of Mayor To Sign: Should the mayor refuse or neglect to sign such ordinance and fail to return the same at the next regular meeting after the same has been presented to him, it shall become the law without his signature. The clerk-treasurer shall annex to such ordinance a certificate to the effect that the mayor has failed to sign or veto the same, and it has therefore become a law without his signature.
E. Preservation Of Ordinances: It shall be the duty of the city clerk-treasurer to safely keep the original ordinances as engrossed, and after final passage, he shall copy the same at length in a book to be known as the "ordinance book of the city of Melba", which book is to be provided by the council for that purpose and shall be kept as a permanent record of the city. (Ord. 47, 8-28-1967)