(a) Ordinances. All ordinances and resolutions shall be prepared as follows.
(1) Each ordinance or resolution shall include a note stating the purpose thereof prepared by the sponsor. All ordinances submitted to the Board shall be in writing and shall include at the outset a brief statement of the subject matter and a title.
(2) The sponsor of an ordinance or resolution may be the President, one or more Trustees, a department head or a committee, board, or commission. The Village Administrator, Clerk, or highest elected official, as appropriate, or the Village Attorney, may sponsor ordinances or resolutions when changes in state law make it necessary or desirable for the village to act rapidly.
(3) Each ordinance or resolution may contain both a recommended referral to appropriate subunits of the Board and a fiscal note showing the contemplated fiscal impact, if any, of the proposal.
(4) On ordinances or resolutions that require special handing, the Administrator shall assure that an editorial note is prepared showing compliance with such special handing.
(5) The Administrator may reject any ordinance or resolution from placement on the agenda which fails to comply with this section.
(6) Resolutions shall be in writing at the request of one Trustee; such request shall be nondebatable.
(7) Unless requested by a Trustee before a final vote is taken, no ordinance, resolution, or bylaw need be read in full.
(8) Resolutions may be referred to an appropriate standing committee for an advisory recommendation.
(b) Subject and numbering of ordinances. Each ordinance shall be related to no more than one subject. Amendment or repeal of ordinances shall only be accomplished if the amending or repealing ordinance contains the number and title of the ordinance to be amended or repealed, and title of amending and repealing ordinances shall reflect their purpose to amend or repeal.
(c) Notice. The Village Board may take action on an ordinance only if it appears on the written agenda for meeting at which action is requested.
(d) Disposition of petitions, communication, and the like. Every petition or other writing of any kind, addressed to the Village Board or to the Village Administrator, Clerk, or highest elected official, as appropriate, or other village officer, for reference to the Village Board, shall be delivered by such other village officer to the Village President or to the presiding officer of the Board as soon as convenient after receipt of same, and in any event, prior to or at the opening of the next meeting of the Village Board following the receipt of same. Every such petition, or other writing, and every paper, communication, or other proceeding which shall come before the Board for action, may be referred by the Village President or presiding officer to the appropriate committee or commission, unless objected to by some member of the Board.
(e) Reference and reports. The presiding officer may refer new business coming to the Board to the appropriate Board committee unless otherwise referred or acted upon by the Village Board. All referrals, unless otherwise provided for in the referral, shall be reported on at the next regular Board meeting. Village Board motions based upon committee or commission action is permissible only on items specifically on the agenda.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-15)