Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the commission only in written or printed form. No ordinance, resolution, or bylaw shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. Ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codifying, revising, or rearranging existing ordinances shall be considered as being one subject. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days, unless the requirement of reading it on three separate days be dispensed with by an affirmative vote of not less than seventy-five percent of the members of the commission. The final reading of each ordinance shall be in full unless a written or printed copy thereof shall have been furnished to each member of the commission prior to such reading. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolution and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the commission. The enacting clause of ordinances passed by the commission shall be, “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Piqua”. The enacting clause of ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be, “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Piqua”.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 42-79)