The Board shall reconsider any ordinance returned
by the County Executive with a veto message pursuant to the Charter.
Such reconsideration of the ordinance shall be at the next meeting
of the Board which occurs not less than three nor more than 30 days
following the return of the ordinance by the County Executive. If
upon such reconsideration, 2/3 of the members of the Board vote to
override the veto, the ordinance shall take effect 10 days thereafter.
Whenever an ordinance has been reconsidered by the Board following
a veto by the County Executive, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance
a certification of the action of the Board upon such reconsideration
in substantially the following form:
"I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance adopted
by the Board on the__________ day of____________ 20____, was delivered
to the County Executive on the __________ day of__________ 20____,
and was returned to me on the __________ day of __________ 20____,
together with the County Executive's statement of the reasons for
which he/she constrained to withhold his/hers approval of such ordinance,
item or part thereof. On reconsideration thereof on the __________
day of__________ 20____ (the Board duly resolved by the affirmative
vote of 2/3 of its members to enact such ordinance notwithstanding
the County Executive's veto) or (the County Executive's veto was sustained.)"
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Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without
the County Executive's signature by reason of his/her failure to return
it after its passage, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance a certificate
in substantially the following form:
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"I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance was
adopted by the Board on the __________ day of __________ 20____, and
was presented to the County Executive duly certified on the __________
day of __________ 20____, and upon his/hers failure to sign it or
to return and file it with the Clerk within 10 days of its passage,
the said ordinance took effect in like manner as if the County Executive
had signed it on the 10th day after it passed."
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Dated:
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Clerk
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No ordinance shall take effect less than 20
days after its final passage by the Board and approval by the County
Executive unless the Board shall adopt a resolution declaring an emergency
and at least 2/3 of all members of the Board vote in favor of such
resolution.
[Amended 12-13-2006 by Ord. O-2006-00016]
The Clerk of the Board shall record all ordinances
and resolutions adopted by the Board and at the close of each year,
with the advice and assistance of the County Counsel and Counsel to
the Board shall compile or codify true copies of all the ordinances
and resolutions adopted during that year, properly indexed. He/she
shall cause sufficient copies thereof to be printed to enable him/her
to file one copy with the Clerk of each municipality within the County,
without charge, and also to make copies available to the general public,
at cost.