All legislative action shall be by ordinance or resolution except when otherwise required by the Constitution or laws of the State of Ohio. The Council shall keep a journal of its proceedings, which shall be a public record. At the request of any member, the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal, and on the passage of every ordinance and on the adoption of every resolution the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal. No ordinance shall be passed or resolution adopted without the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to Council. Every ordinance or resolution shall be fully and distinctly read on three (3) different days, the first and second reading may be by title only, and if such matter is printed and a copy thereof furnished to each member of Council the third reading may be by title only. The rule requiring every ordinance to be read on three (3) separate days may be suspended by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all members elected or appointed to Council. No ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and no ordinance or resolution shall be revived or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution revived, or the section or sections so amended, and the section or sections so amended, shall be repealed. The Council may adopt codification ordinances, codifying, revising and rearranging the ordinances or any portion thereof. All ordinances, resolutions, statements, orders, proclamations, notices and reports required by law, by this Charter, or by ordinance to be published or posted, shall be posted in not less than five (5) of the most public places in the City, as determined by Council, for a period of not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the taking effect thereof, except as may otherwise be provided in this Charter, or in such other manner as Council may hereinafter determine by ordinance, resolution or order.
(Approved by voters May 3, 1966.)