[R.O. 2016 § 113.240; Ord. No. 72-95 § D(1.715), 7-11-1995]
A. 
The style of the ordinances of the City shall be: "Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Park Hills, as follows:"
B. 
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 City Council shall vote therefor, and the "yeas" and "nays" shall be entered on the journal. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the Council in writing and shall be read by title or in full two (2) times prior to passages, both readings may occur at a single meeting of the Council. 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 Council. No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the officer presiding at the meeting of the Council at which it shall have been passed. When so signed, it shall be delivered to the mayor for his/her approval and signature or his/her veto.
C. 
All ordinances passed shall take effect and be enforced from and after the date of their passage and approval, as provided herein, unless otherwise expressly provided.
[R.O. 2016 § 113.260; Ord. No. 72-95 § D(1.725), 7-11-1995]
Every bill presented to the Mayor and returned to the Council with the approval of the Mayor shall become an ordinance, and every bill presented as aforesaid, but returned with his/her objections thereto, shall stand reconsidered. The Council 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 votes on this question shall be taken by "yeas" 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 President 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 City Council, and shall also possess the power to approve all or any portion of the general appropriation bill, or to veto any item or all of the same, provided that should he/she neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance and return the same with his/her objections, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the Council, the same shall become a law without his/her signature.
[R.O. 2016 § 113.270; Ord. No. 72-95 § D(1.730), 7-11-1995]
Emergency measures shall take effect immediately upon their passage. An emergency measure is any ordinance passed by the affirmative vote of four (4) Councilpersons for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety, morals, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto, any ordinance calling any election, or providing for the submission of any proposal to the people; any ordinance making an appropriation for the payment of principal or interest of the public debt or for current expenses of the City government; any general appropriation ordinance; any ordinance fixing any tax rate or assessment to be paid for by special assessment.
[R.O. 2016 § 113.280; Ord. No. 72-95 § D(1.735), 7-11-1995]
All ordinances, including emergency ordinances, shall take effect upon their passage by the Council and approval by the Mayor unless a later date is specifically set out in the ordinance.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Article IV, Availability of Records (§§ 113.290 to 113.320), which immediately followed this Section, was repealed without replacement 5-14-2002 by Ord. No. 417-02 § 1. Said Article was adopted 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 72-95 § E(1.740 — 1.755).