All powers of the City shall be vested in the Council except as otherwise provided under this Charter. All legislative power of the Council, except for procedural matters, shall be exercised by the adoption of an ordinance or resolution. Procedural matters may be undertaken and nonlegislative powers may be exercised by motion. No action of the Council shall be invalidated because of the form of the action taken if the procedures for taking the action as provided in this Charter have been substantially followed.
(a) Form. Every proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in writing and in the form for final adoption. All ordinances and resolutions are to be prepared or reviewed as to form and correctness by the Director of Law. No ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title. The enacting clause of each ordinance or resolution shall be: "The City of New Carlisle hereby ordains (resolves)..." Appropriation ordinances or resolutions shall specify the various accounts and amounts for which monies are to be appropriated. Any ordinance which repeals or amends an existing ordinance or part of the Municipal Code shall refer by number to the ordinance, sections or subsections to be repealed or amended, and shall indicate, where practicable, matter to be omitted by enclosing it in brackets or by strikeout type and shall indicate new matter by underscoring or by italics.
(b) Procedure. An ordinance or resolution may be introduced by any member at any regular or special meeting of the Council. Upon introduction of any ordinance, the Clerk of Council shall distribute a copy to each Council member and to the Manager, shall file a reasonable number of copies in the office of the Clerk of Council and such other public places as the Council may designate, and shall publish in summary form the ordinance together with a notice setting out the time and place for a public hearing thereon, and for its consideration by the Council. The public hearing shall follow the publication by at least seven (7) days. Such hearing may be held separately or in connection with a regular or special Council meeting, and, may be adjourned from time to time. All persons interested shall have an opportunity to be heard. After the hearing, the Council may adopt the ordinance with or without amendment, or Council may reject it. If it is amended as to any matter of substance, the Council shall not adopt it until the ordinance or its amended section(s) have been subjected to all the procedures hereinbefore required in the case of a newly introduced ordinance. A resolution may be introduced and passed at the same meeting of Council without the necessity of publication. As soon as practicable after adoption of any ordinance or resolution, the Clerk shall have it published again together with a notice of its adoption.
(c) Effective Date. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, every adopted ordinance or resolution shall become effective fifteen (15) days after adoption.
(d) "Publish" Defined. As used in this section, the term "publish" means to print in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the City and other public media as may be practicable:
(1) The ordinance or resolution or a brief summary thereof; and
(2) The places where copies of it have been filed and the times when they are available for public inspection.
(Amended June 2, 1981; Nov. 3, 1998; Nov. 7, 2006)