A. 
All ordinances shall be prepared by the Division of Law upon direction of the Council or Mayor. Prior to introduction, each proposed ordinance requiring or permitting administrative action may be submitted to the Business Administrator and the department head concerned, each of whom shall submit to the Council an opinion as to the administrative implications of the proposed ordinance or resolution.
B. 
An ordinance or resolution may be introduced by any member of the Council. Each ordinance and resolution shall be limited to a single subject which shall be expressed in its title. After the first reading of an ordinance, it shall be referred to the Committee of the Whole. Each resolution shall also be referred to the Committee of the Whole upon its introduction unless the Council shall provide for its immediate passage.
C. 
All ordinances shall be introduced, read, heard and enacted in a manner provided by general law. Each ordinance passed by the Council shall be promptly delivered by the Clerk to the Mayor. Each ordinance shall be returned by the Mayor to the Clerk after the Mayor has affixed his signature thereto or after the expiration of 10 days from the date of its delivery to the Mayor in any event.
D. 
No ordinance, other than the local Budget Ordinance, shall take effect less than 20 days after its final passage by Council and approval by the Mayor where such approval is required, unless the Council shall adopt a resolution declaring an emergency and at least two-thirds ( 2/3) of all members of the Council vote in favor of such resolution.
The Council will consider any ordinance returned by the Mayor without his approval pursuant to the Charter. Such reconsideration of the ordinance or any item or part thereof from which the Mayor is constrained to withhold his approval shall be at the next regular meeting of the Council following the return of the ordinance by the Mayor. Whenever an ordinance has been reconsidered by the Council following a veto by the Mayor, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance a certification of the action of the Council upon such reconsideration in substantially the following form:
I hereby certify that the above ordinance, adopted by the Council on the __________ day of _____________ 19 ___ , was delivered to the Mayor on the ____________ day of _________________ 19 ___ and was returned to me on the __________________ day of ____________ 19 ___ , together with the Mayor's statement of the reasons for which he was constrained to withhold his approval of such ordinance, item or part thereof. On reconsideration thereof on the __________ day of _________ 19___ , (the Council duly resolved, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds ( 2/3) of its members, to enact such ordinance, item or part thereof notwithstanding the Mayor's vote.) or (the Mayor's veto was sustained.)
Dated __________________          ___________________________ , Clerk
Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without the Mayor's signature by reason of his failure to return it to the Council by filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has been presented to him, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance a certificate in substantially the following form:
I hereby certify that the above ordinance was adopted by the Council on the ____ day of __________ , 19 __ and was presented to the Mayor duly certified on the__________ , day of 19__, and upon his failure to sign it or return it and file it with the Clerk within 10 days thereafter, said ordinance took effect in like manner as if the Mayor had signed it.
Dated __________________          ___________________________ , Clerk
The Committee of the Whole shall file with the Clerk all petitions, resolutions or other papers considered by it on each matter referred to the committee. All reports to the Council and all resolutions shall be filed with the Clerk and entered in the minutes of the Council.