Every ordinance shall be read and approved by a majority of the Council members elect, unless a greater vote is specifically provided for at two separate meetings of the Common Council before passage and adoption, except those that necessitate a third reading and approval by law. Every ordinance shall first be read and approved as above provided at the meeting at which such ordinance is presented or at the meeting it is first placed for vote of the Council, and then it shall lie on the table until the next meeting passage and adoption by vote of the Council as herein provided; the first reading and approval of the ordinance, on motion, by unanimous consent of the Council, two-thirds of all the members elect being present and voting, suspend the rules requiring second or subsequent readings and approval, and put such ordinance through its second or subsequent readings and approval and on its passage and adoption at one and the same meeting.
(2008 Code, § 1.2.15)