The
enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "The city
council of the city of . . . . . . do ordain as follows:" No
ordinance shall contain more than one subject and that must be
clearly expressed in its title.
No ordinance or any section or subsection thereof shall be
revised or amended unless the new ordinance sets forth the
revised ordinance or the amended section or subsection at full
length.
No ordinance shall take effect until five days after the
date of its publication unless otherwise provided by statute or
charter, except that an ordinance passed by a majority plus one
of the whole membership of the council, designated therein as a
public emergency ordinance necessary for the protection of public
health, public safety, public property or the public peace, may
be made effective upon adoption, but such ordinance may not levy
taxes, grant, renew, or extend a franchise, or authorize the
borrowing of money.
Every ordinance which passes the council in order to become
valid must be presented to the mayor; if he or she approves it,
he or she shall sign it, but if not, he or she shall return it
with his or her written objections to the council and the council
shall cause his or her objections to be entered at large upon the
journal and proceed to a reconsideration thereof. If upon
reconsideration a majority plus one of the whole membership,
voting upon a call of ayes and nays, favor its passage, the
ordinance shall become valid notwithstanding the mayor's veto.
If the mayor fails for ten days to either approve or veto an
ordinance, it shall become valid without his or her approval.
Ordinances shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the
clerk.
[2009 c 549 § 3013; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.12.130.]