[Ord. No. 420 §§ 41-42, 3-20-1950; Ord.
No. 427 § 1, 10-2-1950; Ord. No. 1443 § 1, 7-18-1988]
No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall
become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of all
the members elected to the Board of Aldermen shall vote for it, and
the ayes and nays are entered on the journal. Every proposed ordinance
shall be introduced to the Board of Aldermen in writing and shall
be read by title or in full two (2) times prior to passage, and both
readings may occur at a single meeting of the Board of Aldermen. 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 Board of Aldermen.
No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed
by the Mayor or person exercising the duties of the Mayor's office,
or shall have passed over the Mayor's veto, as hereinafter provided.
[Ord. No. 420 § 44, 3-20-1950]
Every bill duly passed by the Board of Aldermen and presented
to the Mayor and by him approved shall become an ordinance, and every
bill presented as aforesaid, but returned with the Mayor's objections
thereto, shall stand reconsidered. The Board of Aldermen 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 vote on this question shall be
taken by ayes and nays and the names entered upon the journal, and
if two-thirds (2/3) of all elected members shall vote in the affirmative,
the City Clerk 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 the 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 Board of Aldermen; provided, that should
he neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance and return the same with
his objections, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the Board
of Aldermen, the same shall become law without his signature.
[Ord. No. 420 § 45, 3-20-1950]
When a bill is put upon its final passage, and, failing to pass,
a motion is made to reconsider the vote by which it was defeated,
the vote upon such motion to reconsider shall be immediately taken,
and the subject finally disposed of before the Board proceeds to any
other business.
[Ord. No. 420 § 46, 3-20-1950]
The original rolls of all ordinances and resolutions hereafter
passed by the Board of Aldermen shall be separately numbered by the
City Clerk, in numerical order, and shall be kept in a vertical file
in the office of the City Clerk. It shall not be necessary for the
City Clerk to copy in detail any ordinance or resolution so passed
and numbered as aforesaid in the minutes of the Board of Aldermen,
but he shall prepare and keep up to date at all times, a complete
and separate index of all ordinances and resolutions and in such index,
reference shall be made to the number and title of such ordinance
or resolution passed, and where the same can be found in such file.
[Ord. No. 420 § 42, 3-20-1950]
The style of the ordinances of the City shall be: "Be it ordained
by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Centralia, Missouri, as follows."
