(A) Form. The form and style of ordinances and resolutions shall be determined by the Rules of Council. Each ordinance or resolution shall contain only one subject, which shall be expressed in its title, provided that appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects, accounts and amounts for which monies are appropriated, and that ordinances and resolutions which are codified or recodified are not subject to the limitation of containing one subject.
(B) Readings. Each ordinance and resolution shall be read by title only on three separate days, unless this requirement is dispensed with by a vote of at least three-fourths of the current members of the Council. Readings shall be by title only, unless a majority of the Council shall request that any ordinance or resolution be read in full. Copies of each ordinance and resolution shall be available for public inspection at the meetings of the Council at which the ordinance or resolution is considered. A pending ordinance or resolution may be amended at any time prior to its passage by the Council by a majority vote of the current members of the Council present and voting on the amendment, and such amendment shall not require additional readings of the ordinance or resolution.
(C) Voting. The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance, resolution and motion shall be taken by a roll call of members to be entered on the Journal, or other record of proceedings of the Council, and none shall be passed without concurrence of a majority of the current members of Council. Each emergency ordinance or resolution shall require the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the current members of Council for its enactment. If an emergency ordinance or resolution shall fail to receive the required two-thirds affirmative vote, but receives the necessary majority for passage as nonemergency legislation, it shall become effective as non- emergency legislation. A member who is present at a meeting who does not register a negative vote on a matter being voted upon shall be held to have acquiesced in the action take by a majority of those who do vote.
(D) Reason for Emergency. Each emergency ordinance or resolution shall determine that the ordinance or resolution is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety or welfare, and shall contain a statement of the necessity for the emergency.
(E) Effective Date. The following ordinances or resolutions shall take effect upon passage unless a later time is specified therein:
1. Appropriation of money.
2. An annual tax levy for current expenses.
3. Improvements petitioned for by owners of a majority of the front footage or of the area of the property benefited and to be assessed.
4. Submission of any question to the electorate of the determination to proceed with an election.
5. Approval of a revision, codification, recodification, or rearrangement of ordinances.
6. Any emergency ordinance or resolution.
All other ordinances and resolutions shall go into effect thirty days after their passage by the Council.
(F) Authentication and Veto.
1. Each ordinance and resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the Clerk of Council. The failure or refusal to sign shall not invalidate an otherwise properly enacted ordinance or resolution.
2. The Clerk of Council shall promptly present each adopted ordinance or resolution to the Mayor for the Mayor’s approval or disapproval. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any part of any resolution or ordinance appropriating money, but otherwise the Mayor’s approval or disapproval shall be addressed to the entire resolution or ordinance. If the Mayor approves such legislation, the Mayor shall sign it and file it with the Clerk of Council. If the Mayor disapproves such legislation, or any item of such legislation appropriating money, the Mayor shall file it, together with the Mayor’s objections, in writing, with the Clerk of Council; the objections shall expressly state that the Mayor wishes to “veto” the provision. The Mayor’s objections shall be entered in full on the Journal of Council. Unless the resolution or ordinance is filed with the Clerk of Council with the Mayor's written notice of disapproval within ten days after presentation to the Mayor, it shall take effect as though the Mayor had signed it.
3. Upon the Mayor's disapproval, as provided herein, the Council may, but not later than thirty days after the Mayor’s written notice of disapproval of such legislation has been filed with the Clerk of Council, reconsider the legislation, and if upon such reconsideration, the legislation is approved by three-fourths or more of the current members of the Council, it shall take effect notwithstanding the disapproval of the Mayor.
(G) Record. Each ordinance and resolution shall be recorded in a book or other record prescribed by Council. The Clerk of Council or a duly authorized representative of the Clerk shall, upon request of any person and upon the payment of a fee, if established by Council, certify true copies of any ordinance or resolution, which copies shall be admissible as evidence in any court.
(H) Amendments. Any ordinance or resolution, or the codified ordinances or resolutions of the Village, may be amended by the passage of subsequent ordinances or resolutions that: revise existing sections or parts thereof; enact new or supplemental sections or parts thereto; or repeal existing sections or parts thereof. This paragraph does not prevent repeals by implication.
(I) Zoning Matters. The Council may determine, by ordinance or resolution, all procedures to be followed by the Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission with respect to zoning within the Village and other land use regulations and matters, including but not limited to: public hearings; notices to owners of land; and notices to the general public. Otherwise, the Ohio Revised Code will apply. A concurring vote of at least two-thirds of the current membership of Council shall be necessary to pass any zoning ordinance or resolution which differs from the written recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission, but in no event shall an ordinance or resolution be considered as having passed unless said amendment receives at least a majority vote of the current members of Council.
(J) Technical Codes. Council may, by ordinance or resolution, adopt standard ordinances and codes prepared by the State or any department, board or other agency or subdivision of the State, or any standard or model ordinance or code prepared and promulgated by a public or private organization, including but not limited to codes and regulations pertaining to fire, fire hazards, fire prevention, plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration machinery, state pressure piping, piping, boilers, buildings standards, housing standards, and such other matters as the Council may determine to be appropriate for adoption by reference, by incorporation by reference. The ordinance or resolution adopting any such standard ordinance or code shall make reference to the date and source of such standard ordinance or code without reproducing the same at length in the ordinance or resolution. In such cases, publication of the standard ordinance or code shall not be required, but at least one copy of such code shall be kept at all times in the office of the Clerk of Council and available for reference by interested persons. If the standard ordinance or code is amended after its adoption by reference by the Council, it shall be deemed to have been adopted.
(K) Codification. By a majority vote of the members of Council, the Council may cause the ordinances and resolutions of the Village to be revised, codified, recodified, rearranged, or published in book form.
(L) Publication. Publication of Ordinances and Resolutions shall be according to local Rules of Council. Failure to so publish shall not invalidate an ordinance or resolution; and, in such event, the Clerk of Council may authorize publication at a later date.