[RSMo. §79.130; Ord. No. 102009A §1, 10-20-2009; Ord. No. 04072014A §I, 4-7-2014]
The style of the ordinance of the City shall be: "Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Peculiar, Missouri, as follows:" No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of the members elected to the Board of Aldermen shall vote for it, and the "ayes" and "nays" be entered on the journal. All votes taken by roll call in meetings of the Board of Aldermen shall be cast by members of the Board of Aldermen who are physically present and in attendance at the meeting or who are participating via video conferencing. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the Board of Aldermen in writing and shall be read by title or in full two (2) times prior to passage; both readings may occur at a single meeting of the Board of Aldermen. 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 the bill is under consideration by the Board of Aldermen. No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the Mayor, or person exercising the duties of the Mayor's office, or shall have been passed over the Mayor's veto as herein provided.
[Ord. No. 2 Ch 6 Art. 1 §2, 1953]
The style of the ordinances of the City shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Peculiar, Missouri, as follows:".
[RSMo. §79.140]
Every bill duly passed by the Board of Aldermen and presented to the Mayor and by him approved shall become an ordinance, and every bill presented as aforesaid, but returned with the Mayor's objections thereto, shall stand reconsidered. The Board of Aldermen shall cause the objections of the Mayor to be entered at large upon the journal, and proceed at its convenience to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form: "Shall the bill pass, the objections of the Mayor thereto notwithstanding?" The vote on this question shall be taken by "ayes" and "nays" and the names entered upon the journal, and if two-thirds (2/3) of all the members-elect shall vote in the affirmative, the City Clerk shall certify the fact on the roll, and the bill thus certified shall be deposited with the proper officer, and shall become an ordinance in the same manner and with like effect as if it had received the approval of the Mayor. The Mayor shall have power to sign or veto any ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen; provided, that should he neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance and return the same with his objections, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen, the same shall become a law without his signature.
[Ord. No. 2 Ch 6 Art. 1 §6, 1953]
All appropriation of money shall be by ordinance; all ordinances for appropriating money shall, upon its second (2nd) reading, be referred to the City Finance Director for his endorsement to the effect that a sufficient sum remain unappropriated in the funds out of which the proposed appropriation is to be paid to meet the requirements of such bill. No bill appropriating money shall become an ordinance without such endorsement by the City Finance Director thereon.
[Ord. No. 2 Ch 6 Art. 1 §8, 1953; Ord. No. 102009 §1, 10-20-2009]
All resolutions shall be read and require favorable votes by a majority of a quorum present to pass the question. All resolutions may be passed upon a single reading.
[Ord. No. 2 Ch 6 Art. 1 §9, 1953]
All ordinances and resolutions in the nature of orders or ordinances and such other resolutions as the Mayor and Board of Aldermen may in their discretion require shall immediately, after their passage, be recorded, by the City Clerk, be in a book to be known as "The Ordinance Book of the City of Peculiar, Missouri," and, when so recorded by the City Clerk, he shall attach thereto the Seal of the City and a Certificate of Attestation.