Every ordinance shall, except when otherwise ordered, be published
in accordance with MGL c. 43, § 23. Every ordinance consolidating
and arranging the ordinances shall be exempt from the foregoing provision,
shall be published by the action of the Municipal Council in passing
the same, and shall be printed and bound in such manner as the Municipal
Council may order.
All ordinances shall be recorded at length by the City Clerk,
in the order in which they shall be passed, in a book kept for that
purpose.
[Amended 5-23-2000]
All ordinances approved by the Municipal Council and signed
by the City Solicitor and Mayor or approved over the Mayor's veto
shall be placed in the charge of the City Clerk for distribution to
municipal departments affected by the ordinance revision and any municipal
department requesting in writing that all ordinances be distributed
to it.
Whenever an ordinance, order, resolution or vote shall be passed
by the Municipal Council which is required by law to be presented
to the Mayor for approval, the City Clerk shall without unnecessary
delay present the same to the Mayor and enter upon the records of
the Municipal Council the dates of the presentation and approval thereof.
Every ordinance, repeal or amendment of an ordinance, order
or resolution shall, when it is not otherwise provided therein, take
effect at the expiration of 10 days after it is signed by the Mayor.
If such ordinance, repeal or amendment, order or resolution is not
returned by the Mayor within 10 days after presentation thereof to
the Mayor, it shall take effect after the expiration of 10 days from
the date when the same was so presented.