All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the Village
which are consistent with the provisions of this Charter, in force
and effect at the time this Charter is adopted, shall continue in
force and effect until amended or repealed.
All Village legislation shall be by ordinance or by resolution
of the Village Council. The word "resolution" as used in this Charter
shall be an official action of the Village Council in the form of
a motion.
The Village may adopt a law, code, or rules that have been promulgated
and adopted by a department, board, or other authorized agency of
the state, or by an organization or association that is organized
and conducted for the purpose of developing codes, by reference to
the law, code, or rules in the adopting ordinance. The purpose of
the law, code or rules shall be clearly identified in the ordinance.
The ordinance, or a summary of the ordinance, shall be published.
The publication shall contain a notice stating that a complete copy
of the law, code or rules is available to the public at the office
of the Village Clerk/Treasurer. A sufficient number of copies of the
adopted law, code or rules shall be available for public inspection
or distribution at cost.
By petition and according to the procedures in this Charter
or established by state law, an ordinance may be initiated or a referendum
on an ordinance adopted by the Council may take place.
Upon receiving from the Clerk/Treasurer a sufficient and proper
petition for initiative or referendum, the Council shall take action
within 30 days. Upon receipt of a petition for initiative, the Council
shall either adopt the ordinance as submitted in the petition or submit
it to the electors of the Village. Upon receipt of a petition for
referendum, the Council shall either repeal the ordinance to which
the petition refers or submit it to the electors of the Village.
If the Council submits the petition to the electors, it shall
do so at the next election held in the Village for any purpose, or,
in the discretion of the Council, at a special election. The result
shall be determined by a majority vote of the electors voting at the
election.
The Clerk/Treasurer's certification of the sufficiency
of a petition for referendum filed within 30 days after passage of
the ordinance to which the petition refers shall automatically suspend
the operation of the ordinance, pending repeal by the Council or final
determination by the electors of the Village. An ordinance adopted
by a vote of the electors of the Village following a petition for
initiative may not be amended or repealed by the Council for a period
of two years after the date of the election at which it was adopted.
The President and the Clerk/Treasurer shall authenticate by
signature, and the Clerk/Treasurer shall record, all ordinances and
resolutions in a book properly indexed and kept for that purpose.
Within two years after the effective date of this Charter, the
Council shall contract for the preparation of a general codification
of all Village ordinances and resolutions having the effect of law.
The code shall be recodified at least every 10 years thereafter. The
general codification shall be adopted by the Council by ordinance.
The ordinance adopting the code, including its purpose, as well as
subsequent ordinances repealing, amending, continuing or adding to
the code, shall be published as required by law. Printed copies of
the code shall be available in the office of the Clerk/Treasurer for
public inspection, and for sale at a reasonable charge, and shall
constitute publication.
Unless an ordinance shall expressly provide to the contrary,
if any portion of an ordinance or its application to any person or
circumstances shall be found to be invalid by a court, such invalidity
shall not affect the remaining portions or applications of the ordinance
which may be given effect without the invalid portion or applications,
provided the remaining portions are not determined by the court to
be inoperable, and to this end ordinances are declared to be severable.