(a) All action of Council, except as otherwise provided in this chapter or by the Charter, shall be taken by ordinance or resolution duly adopted at a regular or special meeting. Each ordinance or resolution shall require for its adoption the affirmative votes of at least four members of Council unless a larger number is required by the provisions of the Charter or by the laws of the State. The yea or no vote of each Council member shall be taken and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of Council.
(b) Each ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature shall be introduced in written or printed form, shall contain not more than one subject or group of related subjects except as otherwise provided by the Charter and shall, before its passage, be read on three separate days unless the requirement for such reading is dispensed with by the concurrence of at least five Council members. Such reading shall be by caption unless a majority of the Council requests that it be read at length. However, any emergency measure or any measure of a series necessary to provide for making or paying for a public improvement, except the first of such series, may be passed after one reading.
(c) Measures not of a general or permanent nature may be adopted, except as otherwise provided in this chapter or by the Charter, on the motion of any Council member and by the affirmative votes of at least four Council members. Each such measure shall be deemed a resolution unless expressly designated as an ordinance. Each such measure shall be entered in full upon the journal and the subsequent approval by Council of the minutes containing such entry shall be conclusive proof of the correctness of such entry.
(d) No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be amended unless the amending measure sets forth in full the ordinance, resolution or section as amended and repeals the ordinance, resolution or section in effect before the passage of such amendment.
(Ord. 1975-27. Passed 6-11-75.)