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Action of Council shall be by ordinance, resolution, or motion. Every action of a general and permanent nature, or granting a franchise, or levying a tax; or apportioning money; or contracting an indebtedness to be evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes; or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property; or establishing an offense and fixing the penalty therefor shall be taken by ordinance, in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be taken by resolution or motion.
Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 3.10
of this Charter as to special council meetings, any member of the Council may, at a regular or special meeting or at any adjournment thereof, introduce any ordinance, resolution, or motion concerning any subject whatever. Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced only in written or printed form, and shall contain a concise title.
Each ordinance shall contain an enacting clause as follows: "Be it ordained by the Council of the Village (City) of Sebring, Mahoning County, Ohio"; and each resolution shall contain an enacting clause as follows: "Be it resolved by the Council of the Village (City) of Sebring, Mahoning County, Ohio".
Each ordinance or resolution shall contain only one subject, which subject shall be clearly expressed in its title; provided, however, that appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects, accounts, and amounts for which monies are to be appropriated; and that ordinances and resolutions which are codified or recodified shall not be subject to the limitation of one subject.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.07 hereof, each ordinance shall be read at three (3) meetings of the Council, whether regular or special, providing that the meetings be held on three (3) different days; and each resolution shall be read at one (1) meeting of the Council. Each resolution shall be read in its entirety; but each ordinance shall be read in its entirety at its first reading only; and the subsequent readings shall be by title only; provided, however, that the Council may require any reading to be in full by a majority vote of all its members. The Council may dispense with the requirement that a resolution be read in its entirety or that an ordinance be read in its entirety at its first reading and permit such reading to be by title only upon the majority vote of all its members present at the meeting.
(Amended 11-8-94.)
The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal. Each ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be passed by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all of the members of the Council, unless a greater number of affirmative votes is required by other provisions of this Charter or by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Ohio.
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