(A) Attorney. It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to prepare such ordinances as may be required by the City Council.
(B) Vote required; yeas and nays; record. The passage of all ordinances for whatever purpose, and of any resolution or motion (1) to create any liability against a city, or (2) for the expenditure or appropriation of its money, shall require the concurrence of a majority of all members then holding office on the City Council, including the Mayor, unless otherwise expressly provided by the code or any other act governing the passage of any ordinance, resolution or motion; provided that where the Council consists of an odd number of Aldermen, the vote of the majority of the Aldermen shall be sufficient to pass an ordinance. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the question of the passage of the designated ordinances, resolutions or motions and recorded in the journal of the City Council. In addition, the corporate authorities at any meeting may by unanimous consent take a single vote by yeas or nays on the several questions of the passage on any two or more of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions or motions placed together for voting purposes in a single group, which single vote shall be entered separately in the journal under the designation “omnibus vote” and in such event the Clerk may enter the words “omnibus vote” in the journal in each case, in lieu of entering names of the members of the City Council voting “yea” and of those voting “nay” on the passage of each of the designated ordinances, orders, resolutions and motions included in such omnibus group. The taking of such single or omnibus vote and such entries of the words “omnibus vote” in the journal shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section to all intents and purposes and with like effect as if the vote in each case had been taken separately by yeas and nays on the question of the passage of each ordinance, order, resolution and motion included in such omnibus group and separately recorded in the journal. Likewise, the yeas and any other resolution or motion at the request of any Alderman and shall be recorded in the journal.
(C) Ordinances; approval; veto. All resolutions and motions (1) which create any liability against a city, or (2) which provided for the expenditure or appropriation of its money, or (3) to sell any city property, and all ordinances passed by the City Council shall be deposited with the City Clerk. If the Mayor approved of them, he shall sign them. Those of which he disapproves he shall return to the City Council, with his written objections, at the next regular meeting of the City Council occurring not less than five days after their passage. The Mayor may disapprove of any one or more sums appropriated in any ordinance, resolution or motion making an appropriation, and, if so, the remainder shall be effective. However, the Mayor may disapprove entirely of an ordinance, resolution or motion making an appropriation. If the Mayor fails to return any ordinance or any specified resolution or motion with his written objections within the designated time, it shall become effective despite the absence of his signature.
(1993 Code, § 1-2-16)
Statutory reference:
See similar provisions, ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3-11-17; ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 3-11-18