The President of the Council shall be chosen
by the Council for a term of one year, and the Council shall for such
purpose have an organization meeting on January 1, or the first regular
meeting of each year, and the President of the Council shall:
A. Appoint such special committees of the Council as
may be required.
B. Preside at all meetings of the Council and of the
Committee of the Whole.
C. Provide for the calling of the question on all matters
upon which the Council may vote.
D. Rule on all questions of order, subject to appeal
to the Council.
E. Shall supervise the preparation of the agenda.
F. Have such other functions, powers and duties as the
Council may from time to time prescribe.
The Vice President of the Council shall be chosen by the Council for a term of one year at the organizational meeting on January 1, or the first regular meeting of each year. In the absence of the Council President, the Council Vice President shall perform those functions, powers and duties as are set forth in §
2-21 above of this chapter.
The Township Clerk shall serve as Clerk of the
Council in accordance with this chapter.
The President of the Council shall call each
meeting to order. In his or her absence, the Council Vice President
or in the absence of the Council President and Vice President, the
Clerk shall call the meeting to order, and those present shall select
a temporary Chair who shall preside during the absence of the President
and the Vice President. The President shall assume the Chair as soon
as he or she is in attendance at any meeting which may have been called
to order in his or her absence and the temporary Chair shall thereupon
relinquish the Chair.
At the opening of each meeting of the Council,
the Clerk shall call the roll, and the names of those present shall
be recorded in the minutes. Four members of the Council shall constitute
a quorum. If a quorum is not present 1/2 hour after the appointed
time for any meeting, the presiding officer shall declare the meeting
adjourned.
The order of business at each meeting of the
Council shall be as established by the Council President.
The Clerk shall, so far as practicable, prepare
and distribute to the Council the minutes of each meeting promptly
after the meeting. The minutes of any meeting may be approved without
reading whenever they have been distributed at least 24 hours prior
to the time of the next meeting.
When the roll is called upon any question, the
silence of a Councilperson shall constitute an affirmative vote unless
he or she declares an abstention and gives reasons for this abstention.
All ordinances shall be introduced, read, heard
and enacted in the manner provided by general law and the Charter.
Each ordinance passed by the Council shall be forthwith delivered
by the Clerk to the Mayor. Each ordinance shall be returned by the
Mayor to the Township Clerk after the Mayor's signature is affixed
thereto or after the expiration of 10 days from the date of its delivery
to the Mayor in any event.
The Council will reconsider any ordinance returned
by the Mayor within the time permitted by the Charter, together with
a statement setting forth the Mayor's objections thereto or to any
item or part thereof. Such reconsideration of the ordinance or any
item or part thereof from which the Mayor is constrained to withhold
approval shall be at the next meeting of Council which occurs not
less than three 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:
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance adopted
by the Township Council on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____,
was delivered to me on _____ day of _______________, 20_____, together
with the Mayor's statement of the reasons for which he or she was
constrained to withhold approval of such ordinance, item or part thereof.
On reconsideration thereof on _____ day of _______________, 20_____,
(the Council duly resolved by the affirmative vote of 2/3 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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Township Clerk
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Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without
the Mayor's signature by reason of the failure to return it to the
Council by filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has been
presented to the Mayor, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance as
engrossed a certificate in substantially the following form:
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance was
adopted by the Township Council on the_____ day of _______________,
20_____, and was presented to the Mayor duly certified on the_____
day of _______________, 20_____, and upon the 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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Township Clerk
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All reports to the Council and all resolutions
shall be filed with the Township Clerk and entered in the minutes
of the Council.
A motion to adjourn shall always be in order.