(a) Form. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced in writing in the form required for final adoption. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title. The enacting clause shall be “The City of Shinnston hereby ordains...” Any Ordinance which repeals or amends an existing ordinance or part of the City Code shall set out in full the ordinance, sections or subsections to be repealed or amended, and shall indicate matters to be omitted by enclosing it in brackets or by striking type and shall indicate new matters by underscoring or by italics.
(b) Procedure. Any ordinance may be introduced by any member at any regular or special meeting of the Council. Upon introduction of any ordinance, the City Clerk shall distribute a copy to each Council member and to the City Manager and shall file a reasonable number of copies in the office of the City Clerk and such other public places as the Council may designate. The proposed ordinance shall be read by title at not less than two meetings of the City Council with at least one week intervening between each meeting unless a member of the City Council demands that the ordinance be read in full at one or both meetings. If such demand is made, the ordinance shall be read in full as demanded. The City Clerk shall publish the ordinance together with a notice setting out the time and place for a public hearing thereon and for its consideration by the Council. The public hearing shall follow the publication by at least five days, may be held separately or in connection with a regular or special Council meeting and may be adjourned from time to time; all persons interested shall have an opportunity to be heard. After the hearing the Council may adopt the ordinance with or without amendment or reject it, but if it is amended as to any substance, the Council may not adopt it until the ordinance or its amended sections have been subjected to all the procedures herein before required in the case of a newly introduced ordinance. As soon as practicable after adoption, the Clerk shall have the ordinance and a notice of its adoption, published and available at a reasonable price.
(c) Effective Date. Except as provided in this Charter, every adopted ordinance shall become effective at the expiration of 30 days after adoption or at any later date specified therein.
(d) “Publish” Defined. As used in this section, the term “Publish” means to print in one or more newspapers of general circulation in this City:
(1) The subject matter and general title or titles thereof, and
(2) The places where copies of it have been filed and the times when they are available for public inspection and purchase at a reasonable price.