A. All legislative action by the Council in the form of ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form. An affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of Council shall be required for the passage of every ordinance or resolution.
B. Every ordinance and resolution shall be read on three (3) different days at meetings of Council unless five (5) members of Council vote to dispense with the second and third readings thereof. All of these readings may be by title only, unless otherwise requested by any member of Council.
C. No ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one general subject, which subject shall be clearly expressed in its title. Any ordinance or resolution revising or amending previous legislation shall set forth the entire section as it is to be revised or amended. It shall set forth the entire section as revised or amended and state that the same section unrevised or as it existed prior to amendment shall be deemed repealed.
D. The Council may adopt standard codes prepared by public or private agencies on such matters as fire prevention, building construction, electric wiring, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and similar subjects by reference to the date and source of such codes without reproducing the same at length in the adopting ordinance. In case of such adoption, publication of the code at length shall not be required but there shall be at the time of adoption thereof and at all times thereafter on file for public inspection in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer of the Municipality at least one copy of such code. If the agency which originally promulgated or published code thereafter amends said code, Council, if it has adopted said code by the provisions in this section, may adopt such amendment or change by incorporation by reference in an amending ordinance by the same procedure as required for the adoption of the original code without the necessity of setting forth in full in the amending ordinance the provisions of the original ordinance or code.
E. Revisions, codification or rearrangements of ordinances may be published in book form. If so revised, codified or rearranged under appropriate titles, chapters and sections, such revisions, codification or rearrangements may be made in one ordinance comprising one or more subjects. The publication in book form as aforesaid with certification of the passage and adoption thereof by the Clerk-Treasurer shall constitute sufficient publication of the ordinance or ordinances contained therein. The book so published and certified shall be received in evidence in any court, for the purpose of proving the ordinance or ordinances therein contained, in the same manner and for the same purpose as the original book, ordinances, minutes or journal would be received. If a revision, codification or rearrangement of ordinances contains new matter not previously published, a notice of the enactment thereof, setting forth the titles of the ordinances and the titles of the chapters and sections containing such new matter, shall be published in the manner provided in Section 3.12 of this Article, which notice shall constitute a sufficient publication of such new matter.
(Amendment passed by electorate 11-3-09)