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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I' <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />3.4.2. Except as otherwise provided in this charter, all legislation shall be by ordinance. <br />The vote on all ordinances shall be by a roll call vote. <br /> <br />3.4.3. The general administrative business of the council shall be conducted by <br />resolution or motion. <br /> <br />Section 3.5. Procedures on Ordinances. Every proposed ordinance shall be presented in <br />writing. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject.' Such subject shall be clearly <br />expressed in its title. The enacting clause shall be "The City of Ramsey Ordains". No ordinance, <br />except an emergency ordinance, shall be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced and at <br />least three days shall elapse between its introduction and final adoption. <br /> <br />Section 3.6. Emergency Ordinances. An emergency ordinance is an ordinance necessary for <br />the inunediate preservation of the public peace, heaIth,morals,safety or welfare, and inslJch <br />ordinance the emergency is defined and declared in a preamble thereto. An emergency ordinance <br />must be approved by a majority of available members of the city counciL - An emergency <br />ordinance must be in writing but may be enacted without previous filing or voting, and may be <br />adopted finally at the meeting at which it is first introduced and voted upon by the council. An <br />emergency ordinance shall remain in effect for the duration of the emergency. No prosecution <br />- shall be based upon the provisions of an emergency ordinance until twenty-four hours after the <br />ordinance has been adopted, - filed with the city clerk, and either has been posted in three <br />conspicuous places in the city or published as provided for in this charter, or the person charged <br />with violation thereof had actual notice of the ordinance prior to the act or omission resulting in <br />the prosecution. <br /> <br /> <br />Section 3.7. Signing and Publication of Ordinances. The final version of every ordinance <br />shall be read in full prior to passage by council unless such reading is waived by a majority vote <br />ofthe council, provided that a copy of the ordinance is posted or otherwise made available to the <br />public at least three working days prior to the meeting at which it is to be adopted. The <br />ordinance shall then be signed by the mayor, attested to by the city clerk, and filed and preserved <br />by him/her. Each ordinance, or summary of such ordinance, shall be published at least once in <br />the official newspaper. This summary of each ordinance shall include, in layman's terms, the <br />intent of the ordinance. To the extent and inthe manner provided by state statutes, an ordinance <br />may incorporate by reference, a state statute, a state administrative rule or a state regulation, a <br />code, or an ordinance or part thereof, without publishing the material referred to in full. <br /> <br />Section 3.8. Procedure on Resolutions. Every resolution shall be presented in writing and <br />shall be filed and preserved by the city clerk. <br /> <br />Section 3.9. When Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by City Council Take Effect. Every <br />resolution and emergency ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption or at such <br />later date as it specifies. Every other ordinance shall take effect thirty days after its publication <br />or at such later date as it specifies. <br /> <br />5 <br />