(A) Numbering. The City Clerk is authorized to number city ordinances in numerical order, starting with the first ordinance passed and approved after the Revised Ordinances of 1894 were adopted and all ordinances of the city shall bear numbers in their proper numerical order.
('74 Code, § 2-24)
(B) Readings. Before any ordinance may be passed by the Council, the proposed ordinance shall be read at two separate meetings of the Council. The first and second readings of a proposed ordinances, as required by this division, shall be at least seven calendar days apart.
('74 Code, § 2-21) (Ord. 484, passed 8-11-53; Am. Ord. 578, passed 9-11-56)
(C) Ordaining clause. The ordaining clause of ordinances shall be: “Be it ordained, by the City Council of Pittsfield.”
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-2)
(D) Vote required; method of voting.
(1) The passage of all ordinances for whatever purpose, and of any resolution or motion to create any liability against the city or for the expenditure or appropriation of its money, shall require the concurrence of a majority of all alderpersons then holding office on the City Council, including the Mayor, unless otherwise expressly provided by this code or any other act governing the passage of any ordinance, resolution, or motion, provided that, where the City Council consists of an odd number of alderpersons, the vote of the majority of the council shall be sufficient to pass an ordinance. The passage of an ordinance, resolution, or motion to sell any school property shall require the concurrence of three-fourths of all alderpersons then holding office.
(2) The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the question of the passage of the designated ordinances, resolutions, or motions and recorded in the journal of the City Council. In addition, the City Council at any meeting may by unanimous consent take a single vote by yeas and nays on the several questions of the passage of any two or more of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions, or motions placed together for voting purposes in a single group, which single vote shall be entered separately in the journal under the designation “omnibus vote,” and in such event the Clerk may enter the words “omnibus vote” or “consent agenda” in the journal in each case in lieu of entering the names of the alderpersons voting “yea” and of those voting “nay” on the passage of each of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions, and motions included in such omnibus group or consent agenda. The taking of such single or omnibus vote and such entries of the words “omnibus vote” or “consent agenda” in the journal shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section to all intents and purposes and with like effect as if the vote in each case had been taken separately by yeas and nays on the question of the passage of each ordinance, order, resolution, and motion included in such omnibus group, and separately recorded in the journal.
(3) Likewise, the yeas and nays shall be taken upon the question of the passage of any other resolution or motion at the request of any City Council member and shall be recorded in the journal.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3.1-40-40)
(E) Approval and disapproval by mayor. All resolutions and motions which create any liability against the city or which provide for the expenditure or appropriation of its money, or to sell any city or school property, and all ordinances passed by the City Council, shall be deposited with the Clerk. Except as provided in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, §§ 4-1-1 et seq. and 5-1-1 et seq., if the Mayor approves of an ordinance or resolution, the Mayor shall sign it. Those ordinances, resolutions, and motions which he or she disapproves shall be returned to the City Council, with written objections, at the next regular meeting of the City Council occurring not less than five days after their passage. The Mayor may disapprove of any one or more sums appropriated in any ordinance, resolution, or motion making an appropriation, and, if so, the remainder shall be effective. However, the Mayor may disapprove entirely of an ordinance, reso- lution, or motion making an appropriation. If the Mayor fails to return any ordinance or any specified resolution or motion with written objections within the designated time, it shall become effective despite the absence of the Mayor's signature.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3.1-40-45)
(F) Reconsideration.
(1) Every resolution and motion specified in division (E) and every ordinance returned to the City Council by the Mayor shall be reconsidered by the City Council at the next regular meeting following the regular meeting at which the City Council receives the Mayor’s written objection. If, after such reconsideration, two- thirds of all the alderpersons then holding office on the City Council shall agree at that regular meeting to pass an ordinance, resolution, or motion, notwithstanding the Mayor’s refusal to approve it, then it shall be effective. The vote on the question of passage over the Mayor’s veto shall be by yeas and nays and shall be recorded in the journal.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3.1-40-50)
(2) No vote of the City Council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting, unless there are present at the special meeting as many alderpersons as were present when the vote was taken.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3.1-40-55)
(G) Publication requirements; effective date.
(1) All ordinances imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment, or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, shall be printed or published in book or pamphlet form, published by authority of the City Council, or be published at least once, within 30 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the city, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the city . If there is an error in printing, the publishing requirement of this section shall be satisfied if those portions of the ordinance that were erroneously printed are republished, correctly, within 30 days after the original publication that contained the error. The fact that an error occurred in publication shall not affect the effective date of the ordinance so published. If the error in printing is not corrected within 30 days after the date of the original publication that contained the error, as provided in the preceding sentence, the City Council may by ordinance declare the ordinance that was erroneously published to be nevertheless valid and in effect no sooner than the tenth day after the date of the original publication, notwithstanding the error in publication, and shall order the original ordinance to be published once more within 30 days after the passage of the validating ordinance.
(2) Except as provided in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-4, no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after it is so published. However, ordinances establishing rules and regulations for the construction of buildings or any part thereof, or for the development or operation of camps accommodating persons in house trailers, house cars, cabins, or tents, where such rules and regulations have been previously printed in book or pamphlet form, may by their terms provide for the adoption of such rules and regulations or portions thereof by reference thereto without further printing, or publication, if not less than one copy of such rules and regulations in book or pamphlet form has been filed in the office of the Clerk for use and examination by the public at least thirty days prior to the adoption thereof.
(3) All other ordinances, resolutions, and motions shall take effect upon their passage unless they otherwise provide.
(4) Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, any ordinance which contains a statement of its urgency in the preamble or body thereof, other than an ordinance relating to finance, appropriations, or taxes, adopted under ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, §§ 8-1-1 et seq. may take effect immediately upon its passage provided that the City Council, by a vote of two-thirds of all the Aldermen then holding office, so direct. The decision of the City Council as to the urgency of any ordinance shall not be subject to judicial review except for an abuse of discretion.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-4)
(H) Recordation. The Clerk shall record, in a book used exclusively for that purpose, all ordinances passed by the City Council. Immediately following each ordinance the Clerk shall make a memorandum of the date of the passage and of the publication or posting, where required, of the ordinance. This record and memorandum, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the contents, passage, and of the publication or posting of ordinances.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-5)
(I) Revision. The Mayor may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the City Council, one or more competent persons to prepare and submit to the City Council for adoption or rejection, an ordinance to revise the city ordinances. The compensation for this revision shall be fixed by the City Council and paid out of the city treasury.
(ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-3)