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.

Sec. 11. Manner of repealing or suspending ordinances.

No ordinance or section thereof shall be repealed or suspended except by ordinance adopted in the manner provided in this chapter.

Sec. 12. Minutes to be public.

Any citizen of the city may have access to the minutes, upon application to the clerk.

Sec. 13. Right to petition mayor and council; consideration of petitions.

Any citizen of the city may appear before the mayor and council at any regular meeting, and present a written petition; such petition shall be acted upon by the mayor and council in the regular course of business, within fifteen (15) days.

Sec. 14. Failure to vote.

No member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct. In all other cases a failure to vote shall be entered on the minutes as an affirmative vote.