(A) Presentment of ordinances. All ordinances shall be written or printed and presented to the City Council by a member or a committee at a regular or special meeting.
(B) Manner of passing.
(1) Every such ordinance shall be read at length in meetings of the City Council on three different days. At each reading of such ordinance, it shall be open to discussion and amendment and may be referred to a committee, and shall be passed to the next reading, unless, by a vote of the City Council, some other disposition is made of it.
(2) On final passage, the yeas and the nays shall be called and recorded and a concurrence of a majority of all the members elected to the City Council shall be required for its passage; provided, three-fourths of the members of the City Council present may dispense with the three readings and pass the ordinance at any meeting.
(C) Endorsement after passage. When such ordinance is passed, it shall be signed by the City Clerk/Treasurer, and the date of its passage by the City Council shall be added thereto; within three days thereafter, it shall be presented to the Mayor, or in case of his or her absence from the city, to the President of the City Council for his or her consideration. If he or she approves the same, he or she shall attach his or her signature thereto, together with the date of such approval.
(D) Veto by Mayor; passage over Mayor’s veto. Should the Mayor not approve the ordinance, he or she shall return the same to the City Council with his or her objections to the same, in writing, on or before the date of the next regular meeting after the same was presented to him or her.
(1) When an ordinance is so returned by the Mayor, the City Council shall proceed to reconsider the same.
(2) If, on such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected to the City Council vote in the affirmative, the ordinance shall become a law notwithstanding the Mayor’s veto.
(E) Certificate attached when passed over Mayor’s veto. When any ordinance has been passed over the Mayor’s veto, as provided in division (D) above, the City Clerk/Treasurer shall annex a certificate to the ordinance stating that the same was vetoed by the Mayor, giving the date of such veto, and that, upon reconsideration by the City Council, it received the required two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the City Council, together with the date of such action.
(F) Ordinance becoming law without Mayor’s signature. Should the Mayor refuse or neglect to sign any such ordinance or return the same with his or her objections, in writing, on or before the date of the next regular meeting after the same was submitted to him or her, it shall become a law without his or her signature.
(G) Certificate attached when Mayor fails to sign or veto. When any ordinance has become a law without the signature of the Mayor, as provided in division (F) above, the City Clerk/Treasurer shall annex to such ordinance a certificate to the effect that the Mayor has failed to sign or veto the same, and it has therefore become a law without his or her signature.
(H) When ordinance passed. An ordinance shall be considered passed on the date of its approval by the Mayor; and, in case of his or her vetoing an ordinance, on the date of the passage of such ordinance over his or her veto; and, in the case of the failure of the Mayor to sign or veto an ordinance, on the date of the next regular meeting after such ordinance was presented to him or her.
(I) Effective date of ordinances. All ordinances, unless otherwise provided in such ordinance, shall take effect and be in force from and after their passage, approval, and publication. Publication shall be made by being inserted in one issue of the official paper of the city, as provided by § 11.03.
(Prior Code, § 1-5-7)