Ordinance - #00-12 - 10/24/2000 - Laserfiche WebLink

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c) CHAPTER 3 COUNCIL PROCEDURES Section 3.6. Emergency Ordinances. An emergency ordinance is an ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, morals, safety or welfare, and in such ordinance the emergency is defined and declared in a preamble thereto. An emergency ordinance must be approved by a majority of available members of the city council. An emergency ordinance must be in writing but may be enacted without previous filing or voting, and may be adopted finally at the meeting at which it is first introduced and voted upon by the council. An emergency ordinance shall remain in effect for the duration of the emergency. No prosecution shall be based upon the provisions of an emergency ordinance until twenty-four hours after the ordinance has been adopted, filed with the city clerk, and either has been posted in three conspicuous places in the city or published as provided for in this charter, or the person charged with violation thereof had actual notice of the ordinance prior to the act or omission resulting in the prosecution. Section 3.7. Signing and Publication of Ordinances. The final version of every ordinance shall be read in full prior to passage by council unless such reading is waived by a majority vote of the council, provided that a copy of the ordinance is posted or otherwise made available to the public at least three working days prior to the meeting at which it is to be adopted. The ordinance shall then be signed by the mayor, attested to by the city clerk, and filed and preserved by the city clerk. Each ordinance, or summary of such ordinance, shall be published at least once in the official newspaper. This summary of each ordinance shall include, in layman's terms, the intent of the ordinance. To the extent and in the manner provided by state statutes, an ordinance may incorporate by reference, a state statute, a state administrative rule or a state regulation, a code, or an ordinance or part thereof, without publishing the material referred to in full. Section 3.8. Procedure on Resolutions. Every resolution shall be presented in writing and shall be filed and preserved by the city clerk. Section 3.11. Review and Revision of Ordinances and Indexing of Resolutions. The city shall review, revise and rearrange its ordinance code and its resolution index with such additions and deletions as may be deemed necessary by the council at least once every two years. The ordinance code and the resolution index may be published in a book, pamphlet or loose-leaf form and copies shall be made available by the council at the office of the city clerk for general distribution to the public for a reasonable charge. Incorporation in such a code shall be a sufficient publication of any ordinance provision not previously published, if a notice is placed in the official newspaper for at least two successive weeks that copies of the codification are available at the office of the city clerk.