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38 <br /> <br />CHAPTER 7 – RESOLUTIONS, ORDINANCES AND MINUTE ORDERS <br /> <br />METHOD OF ACTION <br />Actions of the City Council shall be taken by ordinance, resolution or motion. (SLMC, § 1-1-300) <br />An ordinance or resolution may be adopted by motion and shall require the affirmative votes of a <br />majority of the entire Council membership. (SLMC 1-1-305) <br /> <br />ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS – READING <br />At the time of its introduction or adoption, an ordinance or resolution shall be read by title only, unless <br />a Councilmember or the Mayor requests that the ordinance or resolution be read in full. Any matter <br />designated as a consent item regularly appearing on the City Council agenda and available for public <br />inspection on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office may, by the motion of the City Council, be <br />deemed to have been read by title. (SLMC, §1-1-310) <br /> <br />RESOLUTIONS – ADOPTION/EFFECTIVE DATE <br />Each Resolution shall become effective upon adoption, or at a later date specified within. <br /> <br />ORDINANCES – ADOPTION <br />No ordinance shall be adopted within five (5) days after its passage to print, at the first reading. (SLMC, <br />§1-1-330) If an ordinance is passed to print by a unanimous vote of the whole Council, then the second <br />reading to adopt the ordinance may be placed on a subsequent regular City Council meeting on the <br />Consent Agenda. <br /> <br />ORDINANCES – ALTERATION PROHIBITED <br />No ordinance shall be altered as to a matter of substance after its passage to print at the first reading. <br />Correction of typographical or clerical errors shall not constitute alteration as to a matter of substance. <br />(SLMC, §1-1-335) <br /> <br />ORDINANCES – EFFECTIVE DATE <br />Each ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its adoption, or at a later date specified therein. <br />Notwithstanding the above reference, an ordinance may be introduced and adopted at the same <br />meeting, and shall be effective upon adoption, if it is an ordinance: <br />a) Relating to an election; <br />b) For the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, containing a declaration <br />of the facts constituting the urgency; <br />c) Relating to public improvement proceedings; <br />d) Relating to taxes for the usual and current expenses of the City; <br />e) Annexing territory to the City; <br />f) Covered by particular provisions of law prescribing the manner of its passage and adoption. <br />(SLMC §1-1-345) <br /> DRAFT