(a) All legislative action shall be by ordinance, resolution or motion.
(b) Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form and shall contain only one (1) subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title, provided, however, that general appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are appropriated.
(c) The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance and resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journal and no ordinance or resolution shall be passed without the concurrence of a majority of members of Council.
(d) Unless otherwise provided herein, every ordinance or resolution shall be read at Council meetings on three (3) different days, unless three-fourths (3/4) of all the members of Council vote to dispense with this rule; provided, however, any ordinance or resolution effecting a change in zoning shall be read at Council meetings on three (3) different days without exception. The reading of an ordinance or resolution shall be by title only, provided that an ordinance or resolution shall be read in full on its first reading if requested by any member of Council and shall be read in full on its second or third reading if requested by at least two (2) members of Council.
(e) No ordinance or resolution, or any section thereof, shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance, resolution or section as revised or amended and the ordinance, resolution or section so amended shall be repealed.
(f) The Council shall cause a journal of its proceedings to be kept which journal shall be a public record.
(g) Council may adopt rules, regulations and bylaws not inconsistent with this Charter, governing its own proceedings and all other matters pertaining to the exercise of its power and the performance of its duties.
(h) All ordinances, resolutions, statements, orders, proclamations and reports required by law, this Charter or ordinance to be published, shall be published by promptly posting a copy thereof for a period of not less than thirty (30) days on a bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall. Council may by ordinance provide for additional methods of publication of any of the foregoing.
(Amended 11-7-78.)