Within five days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, after the City Clerk has presented the resolution or ordinance to the Mayor or the City employee designated by the Mayor, the Mayor shall approve, or if the resolution or ordinance was approved by fewer than five (5) votes of the City Council, may veto, the resolution or ordinance stating the reason or reasons for the veto of the resolution or ordinance on a document physically attached thereto. Approval or veto is a duty and there shall be no right to fail to either approve or veto within the five-day period. In the event the Mayor is absent or otherwise unable to approve or veto the resolution or ordinance during the five-day period, the Mayor Pro Tempore, as empowered pursuant to Charter Section 302, shall approve, but may not veto, the resolution or ordinance in like manner as the Mayor would have been empowered and required to do. In the event the Mayor approves or fails to approve or veto the resolution or ordinance within the five-day period, or in the event the Mayor Pro Tempore acting in the place of the Mayor approves or fails to approve the resolution or ordinance, the resolution or ordinance shall be deemed to be validly enacted on the date of its adoption and conclusively presumed to have been approved, provided it was adopted by the requisite number of votes required pursuant to Section 1.08.010 herein and the City's Charter.
(Ord. MC-1439, 4-03-17; Ord. 3751, 8-25-78)