Section 13.

Any ordinance or resolution passed by the Council shall be signed by the President or President Pro Tempore, and be presented forthwith to the Mayor by the City Clerk. 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 within ten days return it, together with the Mayor’s objections, to the City Clerk, who shall transmit the same to the Council at the next regular meeting thereof, which objections the Council shall cause to be entered in full on its journal. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or part of an ordinance or resolution appropriating money. If the Mayor does not sign or disapprove 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.

(Amended November 4, 2003)