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an ordinance adopting the annual budget, without the favorable votes of a
majority of the whole number of members elected to the Council.
10. The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business.
It shall keep minutes of its proceedings and enter therein the yeas and
nays upon final action on any questions, resolution, or ordinance, or at any
other time if required by any one member. The minutes shall be open to
public inspection.
11. The procedure for the adoption of ordinances by the Council shall
be as follows:
a. A proposed ordinance may be introduced by a majority of the
members of the Council present and voting. Each proposed ordinance
shall be the subject of a public hearing. Notice of the hearing and a
summary of the substance of the proposed ordinance shall be published in
one or more newspapers of general circulation in the City at least once, not
less than 15 days prior to the hearing.
b. Each ordinance passed by the Council shall be delivered within
three days by the City Manager to the Mayor for his approval or veto. If
the Mayor approves any ordinance, he may sign it.. If he vetoes any ordi-
nance, he shall deliver to each member of the Council, within seven days
after delivery of such ordinance to him, a statement of his reason for the
veto of the ordinance. If the Mayor shall neither approve an ordinance
nor veto it within the time required herein, said ordinance shall be deemed
to have been approved on the seventh day following delivery of said
ordinance to the Mayor. An ordinance vetoed by the Mayor shall not
become effective unless subsequently passed by a favorable vote of four-
fifths of the Council 35 days after the date of delivery of such statement
of disapproval. No further hearing shall be required with reference to
such ordinance.
c. An ordinance shall become effective at the expiration of 20 calendar
days following approval by the Mayor or passage by the Council over his
veto unless such ordinance shall have been designated as an emergency
ordinance by the Council, in which event it shall become effective on the
date of approval by the Mayor or the date of passage of such ordinance by
the Council over his veto.
d. A notice of the adoption of and a summary of each ordinance
which shall hereafter become effective pursuant to the terms of this Sec-
tion 11 shall be published at least once in a newspaper or newspapers of
general circulation in the City, within eleven days after the date of
approval by the Mayor or the date of passage by the Council over his veto.
e. The following actions may be taken by the Council only by ordi-
nance, as that word is used in Sections 9, 11, 12 and 13 of this Charter:
(1) Adoption of the budget and fixing of the ad valorem tax rate.
(2) Adoption of any regulation which authorizes a fine, a jail
sentence or other penalty or which authorizes relief by way of injunction
or other equitable relief.
(3) Any action which is required by this Charter, or any applicable
statute or constitution to be done by ordinance.
12. a. If, before the expiration of twenty calendar days following
approval of any ordinance by the Mayor or passage of any ordinance over
the Mayor's veto, a petition is filed with the City Manager containing the
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