[1997 Code § 3-14]
A.
An ordinance or resolution may be introduced by any member of the
City Council. Each ordinance and resolution shall be limited to a
single object, which shall be expressed in its title.
B.
All ordinances shall be introduced, read, heard and enacted in the
manner provided by general law. Each ordinance passed by the City
Council shall be promptly delivered by the City Clerk to the Mayor.
Each ordinance shall be returned by the Mayor to the Clerk after the
Mayor has affixed his signature thereto or after the expiration of
10 days from the date of its delivery to the Mayor in any event.
[1997 Code § 3-15]
The City Council will reconsider any ordinance returned by the
Mayor without his approval, pursuant to the Charter. Such reconsideration
of the ordinance or any item or part thereof from which the Mayor
is constrained to withhold his approval shall be at the next meeting
of Council which occurs not less than 30 days following the return
of the ordinance by the Mayor. Whenever an ordinance has been reconsidered
by the Council following a veto by the Mayor, the Clerk shall append
to such ordinance a certification of the action of the Council upon
such reconsideration in substantially the following form:
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance adopted by the Council
on the _____ day __________ 20_____ was delivered to the Mayor on
the _____ day of __________ 20_____ and was returned to me on the
_____ day of __________ together with the Mayor's statement of
the reasons for which he was constrained to withhold his approval
of such ordinance, item or part thereof. On reconsideration thereof
on the _____ day of _____ (the Council duly resolved by the affirmative
vote of five of its members to enact such ordinance, item or part
thereof notwithstanding the Mayor's veto) or (the Mayor's
veto was sustained).
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DATED
Clerk
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[1997 Code § 3-16]
Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without the Mayor's
signature by reason of his failure to return it to the Council by
filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has been presented
to him, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance as engrossed a certificate
in substantially the following form:
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance was adopted by the
Council on the _____ day of __________ 20_____ and was presented to
the Mayor duly certified on the _____ day of __________ and upon his
failure to sign it or to return and file it with the Clerk within
10 days thereafter, said ordinance took effect in like manner as if
the Mayor had signed it.
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DATED
Clerk
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