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a first reading at a public meeting of the City Council, and except as
herein provided, shall immediately be tabled by the Council and shall not
be eligible for adoption until the next regularly scheduled public Council
meeting. At a subsequent Council meeting, the proposed ordinance may
be introduced for a second reading, after which it may be adopted by a
majority vote of the Council. The Council may, by a four-fifths vote,
declare any proposed ordinance or any proposed amendment to an ordi-
nance to be an "emergency ordinance" and shall thereupon be authorized
to introduce and enact such ordinance or amendment at a single meeting.
Every ordinance, unless it is passed as an emergency ordinance, shall
become effective at the expiration of twenty (20) calendar days following
approval by the Mayor or passage by the Council over the Mayor's veto.
An emergency ordinance shall become effective on the date specified in
the ordinance, but no ordinance shall become effective until approved by
the Mayor or passed over his veto by the Council.

c.   Veto. All ordinances passed by the Council shall be immediately
delivered by the Administrative Officer to the Mayor for his approval or
veto. If the Mayor approves any ordinance, he shall sign it. If the Mayor
vetoes any ordinance, he shall not sign it. The Mayor shall return all
ordinances to the Administrative Officer within seven (7) calendar days
after delivery to him with his approval or veto. Any ordinance approved
by the Mayor shall be law. Any ordinance vetoed by the Mayor shall be
returned with a message stating the reasons for his disapproval. Any
vetoed ordinance shall not become law unless subsequently passed by a
favorable vote of four-fifths of the whole Council within thirty-five cal-
endar days from the time of the return of the ordinance. If the Mayor
fails to return any ordinance within seven days of its delivery, it shall
be deemed to be approved by the Mayor and shall become law in the
same manner as an ordinance signed by him.

[SECTION 24. ORDINANCES: VIOLATIONS.]

d.   Ordinances: Enforcement. The style of all ordinances enacted by
the [Mayor and] Council [of New Carrollton] shall be "Be it enacted
and ordained by the [Mayor and] City Council of New Carrollton," and
all suits at law for the violation [of any rules, ordinances, regulations and
other claims,] thereof shall be instituted in the name of the [Mayor and
Council] City of New Carrollton, against offending parties, and all fines
recovered in such suits at law for the breach of any [rule,] ordinance [,
or regulation] of the corporation, and any fine imposed by any [Trial
Magistrate] judicial officer for violation of such ordinances shall be col-
lected by said [Trial Magistrate] judicial officer and paid over to the
Treasurer of the [Town] City within one month after collection of the
same.

[SECTION 25. SAME: CERTIFIED COPIES.]

e.   Ordinances: Certified Copies. A copy of any ordinance or record
of the [Mayor and Council] City of New Carrollton, certified by its
[clerk,] Administrative Officer, under its seal, to be a true copy and the
whole of such ordinance or record, shall be received in all courts as pre-
sumptive legal evidence of the facts therein stated.

[c. Penalties.] f. Ordinances: Penalties. To give full force and effect
to the powers and authority conferred on the [Mayor and] Council,
[they] the Council may provide for the enforcement of such ordinances
by reasonable fines and penalties not to exceed [fifty ($50.00)] One