SECTION 10. LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE.

   (a)    Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the Council only in written or printed form. All ordinances or resolutions, except ordinances or resolutions making appropriations or providing for a codification or recodification, shall be confined to one subject which shall be clearly expressed in the title. Ordinances or resolutions making appropriations shall be confined to the subjects of appropriation. No ordinance or resolution shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days unless the requirement of reading on three separate days has been dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the Council. The first two readings shall be by title only, and the final reading shall be in full unless a written or printed copy of the measure shall have been furnished to each member of the Council prior to such reading, or unless such reading in full shall be dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of the Council. Any legislation for the sale or transfer of real estate shall not be read at any special or emergency special meetings. Such legislation must have three readings at regularly schedule council meetings. The enacting clause of all ordinances or resolutions passed by the Council shall be, "Be it ordained (or resolved) by the Council of the City of Whitehall. " The enacting clause of all ordinances or resolutions submitted by the initiative shall be "Be it ordained (or resolved) by the people of the City of Whitehall.
(Amended 11-4-08.)

   (b)    Ordinances and resolutions may be revised, codified, re-arranged, and published in book form under appropriate titles, chapters, and sections and such revision and codification may be made in one ordinance containing one or more subjects. Any such revision or codification of ordinances or resolutions in book form shall be approved by a majority vote of the members of Council and shall contain a certificate of the President of Council and the Clerk of Council of the correctness of such revision or codification; and such book so published shall be received in evidence in any Court for the purpose of proving the ordinances or resolutions therein contained, the same and for the same purpose as the original book, ordinances or resolutions, minutes, or journals would be received. An official copy of said revision or codification in book form shall be maintained by the Clerk of Council and such revision in codification shall not require further publication and shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the Council.

   (c)    No ordinance or resolution, section or subsection thereof shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contain the entire ordinance or resolution, or section or subsection revised or amended, and the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections, or subsection or subsections so amended shall be repealed.

   (d)    The vote on the question of passage of each ordinance, resolution, and motion shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the Journal, and no ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be passed without concurrence of a majority of the members of Council. Emergency ordinances or resolutions shall require the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the Council and shall take effect immediately upon its passage unless a later time be specified therein. All other ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after twenty days from the date of their passage by the Council except as otherwise provided in this Charter. In the event an ordinance or resolution proposed as an emergency measure does not receive the vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council as required by Section 10(d) of this Charter, but it is approved by a majority vote of the members of Council, it shall be passed and become effective in the time required for nonemergency ordinances and resolutions.

   (e)    Any ordinance or resolution passed by the Council shall be signed by the President or other presiding officer and presented forthwith to the Mayor by the Clerk of Council. If the Mayor approves such ordinance or resolution the Mayor shall sign it within ten days after its passage or adoption by the Council; but if the Mayor does not approve it, the Mayor shall return it to the Council with the objections within said ten days, which objections the Clerk of Council shall cause to be entered in full on the journal. If the Mayor does not sign or veto an ordinance or resolution after its passage or adoption, within the time specified, it shall take effect in the same manner as if the Mayor had signed it. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or part of any ordinance or resolution appropriating money. When the Mayor refuses to sign an ordinance or resolution or part thereof and returns it to the Council with the Mayor's objections, the Council shall, after the expiration of not less than one week, proceed to reconsider it and, if upon reconsideration, the resolution or ordinance or part or item thereof disapproved by the Mayor be approved by the vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council, it shall take effect without the signature of the Mayor.
(Amended 11-6-18.)