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Tucson, AZ Code of Ordinances
TUCSON, ARIZONA CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES
ADOPTING ORDINANCES
PART I CHARTER*
CHAPTER I. NAME
CHAPTER II. BOUNDARIES
CHAPTER III. GOVERNMENT*
CHAPTER IV. POWERS OF CITY*
CHAPTER V. OFFICERS AND SALARIES*
CHAPTER VI. THE MAYOR*
CHAPTER VII. POWERS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL*
CHAPTER VIII. VACANCIES*
CHAPTER IX. LEGISLATION*
CHAPTER X. POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS OTHER THAN MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL*
CHAPTER XI. CITY BOARD OF HEALTH
CHAPTER XII. CITY COURT
CHAPTER XIII. FINANCE AND TAXATION*
CHAPTER XIV. OFFICIAL BONDS*
CHAPTER XV. PROCUREMENT*
CHAPTER XVI. ELECTIONS*
CHAPTER XVII. FRANCHISES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER XVIII. PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES*
CHAPTER XIX. THE INITIATIVE*
CHAPTER XX. THE REFERENDUM*
CHAPTER XXI. RECALL
CHAPTER XXII. CIVIL SERVICE*
CHAPTER XXIII. PENSION FUND
CHAPTER XXIV. BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES, ETC.*
CHAPTER XXV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER XXVI. AMENDMENTS
CHAPTER XXVII. RESERVED*
CHAPTER XXVIII. RESERVED*
CHAPTER XXIX. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE*
CHAPTER XXX. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES*
CHAPTER XXXI. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE
PART II TUCSON CODE
Tucson, AZ Unified Development Code
Tucson Administrative Directives
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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.
Sec. 9. Manner of revising, amending, reenacting ordinances.
Ordinances shall not be revised, reenacted or amended by reference to title only, but the ordinance to be revised or reenacted, or the section or sections thereof to be amended, or the new section or sections to be added thereto, shall be set forth and adopted in the method provided in this chapter for the adoption of ordinances.
Sec. 10. Publication, effective date of ordinances.
All ordinances adopted under this Charter, except emergency ordinances, shall be published forthwith in the usual manner three (3) consecutive times in the official newspaper, and no [such] ordinance shall take effect until thirty (30) days after its passage.
Annotation--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, Burton v. City of Tucson, 88 Ariz. 320, 356 P. 2d 413. The word [such] was inserted by editors to show effect of said case.
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