(A) Form and procedures. Every proposed town ordinance shall be introduced in writing and in the form required for final adoption. All ordinances shall be read two times on two separate days with at least six days between each reading. (See § 31.33.)
(B) First reading. The first reading of a town ordinance shall be for information. Amendments and discussion at first reading are permissible by majority vote of Council present. Otherwise, ordinances shall be read by title only.
(C) Second reading. The second reading of an ordinance shall be by title only and shall be for the purpose of passing the same to have the full force of law. Discussions, amendments and motions are appropriate at this time and shall be made prior to second reading.
(D) Signing, sealing and delivering. After an ordinance shall have received its second reading, it shall be signed by the Mayor, the Mayor Pro Tem or the Presiding Officer and attested to by the Clerk, or in his or her absence, the Town Administrator, affixed with the seal of the municipality of the town and placed in the town’s Book of Ordinances by the Clerk.
(Prior Code, § 2-27) (Ord. passed 10-16-2012)