[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Franklin 5-5-1986
as Title One, Ch. I of the 1986 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
All bylaws passed by the City Council shall be called ordinances.
A. All ordinances shall be presented at City Council meetings.
An ordinance, when presented, shall be read a first time in its entirety,
except for a general revision or by unanimous vote of the Council. An ordinance
may be revised or amended after its first reading and may be sent to the Legislative
Committee of the City Council for its recommendation, which Committee shall
issue its recommendation at the next regular Council meeting. Before its passage
the ordinance must be read a second time but may be read by title only.
B. An ordinance may be passed at the meeting at which it
is presented for its first reading if all Council members present and voting
approve it for first and final reading unanimously. In such case, no recommendation
from the Legislative Committee shall be necessary. Lacking such approval,
no ordinance may be passed until the next meeting of the Council after the
first reading. An ordinance may be amended after the second reading. Ordinances
may be introduced or passed at both regular and special Council meetings.
A. All ordinances passed by the City Council shall be recorded without erasure or interlineation in a suitable ordinance book by the City Clerk and published in the appropriate Annual City Report. The City Clerk shall also publish the ordinance in accordance with Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I, Adoption of Code.
B. All proposals and adoptions of ordinances of the City
Council and such resolutions as the City Council may direct shall be published
by title and brief description in one or more newspapers of general circulation
in the city, as the City Manager may designate. This section shall not apply
to a general revision of any chapter of this Code.