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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.
An emergency ordinance or resolution shall contain the determination that such ordinance or resolution is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare; and the reasons for such necessity shall be clearly set forth in one section thereof. The Council may dispense with the requirement that an emergency ordinance or resolution be read in its entirety and permit such reading to be by title only upon the majority vote of all its members present at the meeting. The passage on an emergency ordinance or resolution shall require the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths (3/4) of all the members of the Council. In the event that a proposed emergency ordinance or resolution shall fail to receive the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths (3/4) of all the members of the Council required for its passage as an emergency measure; then, in that event, the emergency clause shall be deleted from said legislation, and such legislation shall be deemed to have received its first reading; and its passage shall be controlled by Section 4.05
hereof. Nothing contained in this Section or Section 4.05
shall preclude the amendment of any ordinance or resolution at any time so as to become an emergency measure hereunder. (Amended 11-8-94.)
Ordinances and resolutions providing for the appropriation of monies, an annual tax levy for current expenses, improvements petitioned for by the owners of the requisite majority of the front footage or of the area of the property to be benefitted and to be especially assessed therefor, submission of any question to the electorate or the determination to proceed with an election, providing for the approval of a revision, codification, recodification, rearrangement of ordinances and resolutions, or publications thereof in book form, a Resolution of Removal of the Manager, and all emergency ordinances and resolutions shall become effective, unless a different effective date is specified therein, immediately upon passage. All other ordinances and resolutions shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. on the thirtieth day after the date of passage thereof.
Each ordinance or resolution enacted by the Council shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor-President of Council, the Solicitor, and the Clerk of Council; however, the failure or refusal of such officers to sign such ordinances or resolutions shall not act to invalidate an otherwise validly enacted ordinance or resolution.
(Amended 11-2-99)
Each ordinance or resolution shall be recorded in a book, or other record prescribed by the Council, established and maintained by the Clerk of Council for that purpose. The Clerk of Council, or a duly authorized Deputy to said Clerk shall, upon the request of any person, and upon the payment of a fee as established by the Council, certify and deliver true copies of any ordinance or resolution, which certified copies shall be admissible as evidence in any Court.
No ordinance or resolution or any section thereof shall be revised or amended unless the legislation revising or amending contains the entire provision of the ordinance, resolution, or section thereof in its amended or revised form; and the ordinance, resolution or section thereof so revised or amended, be repealed. This requirement shall not prevent the amendment of an ordinance or resolution by the addition of a new section, sections, subsection, or subsections; and in such case, the full text of the former ordinance or resolution need not be set forth. This requirement shall not prevent repeal by implication in the case of subsequent enactment of provisions inconsistent with previous legislation.
Except in the case of a codification or recodification of ordinances and resolutions, a separate vote shall be taken on each ordinance or resolution proposed to be amended.
Ordinances and resolutions that have been introduced, may be amended or revised by a majority vote of all of the members of the Council at any time prior to a vote on passage thereof; and such ordinance or resolution as amended or revised need not receive three (3) additional readings under Section 4.05
of this Charter merely because of such revision or amendment.
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