Sec. 2. Organization and meetings of mayor and council.

At 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday in May, following a general municipal election at which a mayor is elected, the mayor and council shall meet at the usual place for holding meetings of the mayor and council, at which time the newly elected mayor and the newly elected councilmembers shall assume the duties of their office, and the mayor and council shall organize and, among other things, shall elect a vice mayor from their number, to serve for one (1) year from that date. A like meeting shall be held on the first Monday in May in the years when only councilmembers are elected, and a vice mayor selected likewise. The mayor and council, by ordinance, shall schedule a regular meeting to be held during the first full week of each month, and may schedule such additional regular meetings during any month as they deem necessary or desirable. Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or, in the mayor's absence or failure to act, by any four (4) members of the council.

(Ord. No. 9271, § 1, eff. 12-2-99)

   Editors Note: Proposition No. 101, approved at a Charter Amendment Special Election held on November 2, 1999 became effective December 2, 1999.

Sec. 3. Meeting of mayor and council to be public; journal required.

All meetings of the mayor and council shall be public, and a journal of their proceedings shall be kept by the clerk under their direction, and the ayes and noes shall be taken and entered in such journal upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, and on the final action of the mayor and council in the granting of franchises, in the authorization of contracts, in the ordering of work to be done or supplies or other public improvements; in all other cases, upon the call of any member.

Sec. 4. Mayor and council to adopt rules of proceedings; substantive action to be by ordinance or resolution.

The mayor and council shall establish rules for their proceedings, and shall act only by resolution or ordinance.

Sec. 5. Quorum for mayor and council; vote required except for procedural motions; signature, attestation of ordinances and resolutions.

Four (4) members of the mayor and council, or, in the absence or disability of the mayor, four (4) members of the council, shall constitute a quorum to do business, and four affirmative votes of the mayor and council, or, in the absence or disability of the mayor, four (4) affirmative votes of the members of the council, shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance, resolution or motion, or pass any measure, unless a greater number is specifically required by this Charter. Every ordinance or resolution adopted by the mayor and council must be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk.

(Prop. 403, eff. 2-2-2016)

Annotation--Under provision of 1883 Charter authorizing the vice-chairman of the council to act as mayor in the absence of mayor, similar to ch. VIII, § 1, hereof, held that the vice-chairman may sign ordinances when acting as mayor. City of Tucson v. Arizona Mortuary, 34 Ariz. 495, 272 Pac. 923.

Sec. 6. Form of ordinances and resolutions; enacting clause.

Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form. The enacting clause of all ordinances adopted by the mayor and council shall be

      "BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Tucson."

Sec. 7. Vote on motion to reconsider ordinance.

When an ordinance put upon final passage fails to pass, and a motion is made to reconsider, the vote on such motion shall not be taken within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter.

Sec. 8. Signing, attestation, effective date of ordinances, resolutions, franchises; emergency measures; publication and posting required.

All ordinances, resolutions or franchises shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, and transcribed in the proper books therefor, but no ordinance, resolution or franchise shall take effect and become operative until thirty (30) days after its passage, except measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health or safety of the city; but no such emergency measure shall become immediately operative unless it shall state, in a separate section, the reasons why it is necessary that it should become immediately operative, and be approved by the affirmative vote of five (5) members of the mayor and council, taken by ayes and noes; provided, further, that all ordinances and resolutions having the effect of ordinances or required to be published, except emergency ordinances and resolutions, shall be published at least three (3) consecutive times in the official newspaper of the city, and a copy thereof posted on a bulletin board in front of the City Hall, before they become effective and operative.

(Prop. 403, eff. 2-2-2016)

   Cross References: Printing and publication of propositions required to be submitted to voters, ch. XIX, § 5.

Annotations--Adoption of an electrical code by resolution which was in turn adopted by an ordinance which complied with the requirements of ch. IX, § 8. constituted an effective adoption of the electrical code, City of Tucson v. Stewart, 45 Ariz. 36, 40 p. 2d 72. Chapter IX, § 10 does not mean that emergency measures passed pursuant to ch. IX, § 8 will not become effective until thirty days after passage; they become effective upon passage under ch. IX, § 8 above. Burton v. City of Tucson, 88 Ariz. 320, 356 P. 2d 413.