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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)
Appropriation ordinances, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of city affairs, resolutions, requesting information from administrative officers, or directing administrative action, and emergency measures, shall be in effect from and after their passage by the commission unless some other time be specified therein. All other ordinances and resolutions passed by the commission shall be in effect from and after ten (10) days from the date of first publication except those in which a later date for taking effect is specified. Ordinances adopted by vote of the electors shall take effect at the time indicated therein, or, if no time be specified, then thirty (30) days after the election adopting such ordinance or resolution. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution to provide for immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, in which the emergency claimed is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. The affirmative vote of at least seventy-five percent of the members of the City Commission, either elected or appointed thereto concurring shall be required to pass any ordinance or resolution as an emergency measure. No measure making or amending a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 43-79)
After passage by the commission, each ordinance and resolution shall be authenticated by the signatures of the mayor and city clerk and recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Within ten days after passage each ordinance and resolution, except ordinances and resolutions requesting information from city officers or directing administrative action, shall be published in such manner as may be provided by ordinance. The ordinance and resolution may be published in summary form. All ordinances and resolutions shall be available for public inspection in the city manager’s office. All legislation dealing with bond issues shall be passed and published in accordance with general law. The publication in book form of any codification, revision or rearrangement of ordinances passed by the commission, if such book contains the certificate of the mayor and city clerk of the correctness thereof, shall be deemed sufficient publication of the ordinance, or several ordinances, contained therein; and any such book so published and certified shall be received as evidence in any court for the purpose of proving the ordinance or ordinances therein contained.
The electors shall have power to propose any ordinance except an appropriation ordinance, and to adopt or reject the same at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the commission by petition which, to be sufficient, shall be signed by 500 registered voters from the City of Piqua. All petition papers circulated with respect to a proposed ordinance shall be uniform in character and shall contain the proposed ordinance in full. The form of the petition shall be as follows:
PETITION TO INITIATE AN ORDINANCE TO [purpose of proposed ordinance] |
This Ordinance reads as follows: [exact language of ordinance in its entirety]. |
This petition is being circulated by [name] as a committee member for the petitioners. Your signature indicates that you desire to have the above initiated ordinance submitted and voted upon by the City Commission or adopted or rejected at the polls by a vote of the electors. |
To sign this petition, you must be a registered voter of the City of Piqua with the Miami County Board of Elections. A false signature may result in prosecution under the law. |
Printed Name Signature Address Registered Voter |
1. Y/N |
The following are the names and addresses of the full Committee: |
The petition shall also contain the affidavit as required in Section 27 of this Charter.
(Adopted by electorate, November 3, 2009 – Amending Ord. No. 11-09)
If an initiative petition or amended petition, be found sufficient by the city clerk he shall immediately so certify and promptly submit the proposed ordinance therein set forth to the commission which shall at once read it and refer it to an appropriate committee, which may be a committee of the whole. Provision shall be made for public hearings upon the proposed ordinance before the committee to which it is referred. Thereafter the committee shall report the proposed ordinance to the commission, with its recommendations thereon, not later than sixty days after the date on which it was submitted to the commission by the city clerk. Upon receiving the proposed ordinance from the committee, the commission shall proceed at once to consider it and to take final action thereon within thirty days from the date of such committee report.
If the commission fails to pass an ordinance proposed by initiative petition or passes it in a form different from that set forth in the petition therefor, the committee of the petitioners hereinafter provided for may require that it be submitted to a vote of the electors either in its original form or with any change or amendment presented in writing either at a public hearing before the committee to which the proposed ordinance was referred or during the consideration thereof by the commission. If the committee of petitioners require the submission of a proposed ordinance to a vote of the electors they shall certify that fact to the city clerk, and file in his office a certified copy of the proposed ordinance in the form in which it is to be submitted, within ten business days after final action on such proposed ordinance by commission.
(Adopted by electorate, November 3, 2009 – Amending Ord. No. 11-09)
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