§ 2-44. Ordinances; style; reading; reading of bills.

(a)

The style of ordinances of the city shall be: "BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARTHAGE, JASPER COUNTY, MISSOURI, as follows: … "No ordinances shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of members elected to the council shall vote therefor, and the yeas and the nays shall be entered on the journal. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the council in writing and shall be read two (2) times prior to passage. If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time that the bill is under consideration by the council. No bill shall become an ordinance unless it shall be signed by the officer presiding at meeting of the council at which it shall have been passed. When so signed, it shall be delivered to the mayor for his approval and signature or veto.

(b)

No bill except emergency ordinances as described in section 3-9(e) of the home rule charter of the City of Carthage shall receive more than one (1) reading at any meeting of the council without the consent of all members present.

(Code 1978, §§ 101.170, 101.180; Ord. No. 6168, §§ I, II, 2-28-89; Ord. No. 6611, § 1, 6-14-94)