§ 2-55. Required vote on ordinances, resolutions, etc.; recordation of votes.  


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  • (a)

    No ordinance, resolution, motion or vote shall be adopted by the council except at a meeting open to the public and, except motions to adjourn, to fix the time and place of adjournment and other motions of a purely procedural nature, unless it shall have received the affirmative votes of at least four (4) members. All voting, except on procedural motions, shall have the ayes and nays recorded in the journal.

    (b)

    No ordinance or resolution shall be passed having for its object the appropriation of any sum of money or creating indebtedness or directing the payment of any sum of money, except by the concurrence of four-sevenths ( 4/7 ) of all the members elected to the council.

    (Ord. No. 1877, § 1; Ord. No. 2250; Code 1961, § 2-30)

    Charter reference— Similar provisions, § 4.07.

(Ord. No. 1877, § 1; Ord. No. 2250; Code 1961, § 2-30)

Charter reference

Similar provisions, § 4.07.