All ordinances and resolutions shall be drafted by or receive
the approval of the Township Attorney as to form and legality, and
the Township Attorney shall prepare ordinances and resolutions as
the Council, Mayor, Township Administrator or Municipal Clerk may
request.
Any Council person may introduce a resolution or ordinance.
A.
Procedure as required by general law. All ordinances shall be adopted
and published in the manner required by general law, provided that
any ordinance may incorporate by reference any standard technical
regulations or code, official or unofficial, which need not be so
published whenever 10 copies of the regulations or code have been
placed on file in the office of the Municipal Clerk and in the office
of the body or department charged with the enforcement of the ordinance
for the examination of the public for as long as the ordinance is
in effect.
B.
Submission of ordinances to Mayor. All ordinances adopted by the
Council shall be submitted to the Mayor, and (s)he shall ,within 10
days after receiving any ordinance, either approve the ordinance by
affixing his/her signature thereto, or return it to the Council by
delivering it to the Municipal Clerk, together with a statement setting
forth his/her objections thereto or to any item or part thereof. The
Clerk shall immediately notify the members of the Council, in writing,
of the Mayor's action with regard to the ordinance. No ordinance or
any item or part thereof shall take effect without the Mayor's approval,
unless the Mayor fails to return an ordinance to the Council within
10 days after it has been presented to him/her, or unless Council
upon reconsideration thereof, on or after the third day following
its return by the Mayor, shall by a vote of 2/3 of the members resolve
to override the Mayor's veto.
No ordinance, other than the local budget ordinance, shall take
effect less than 20 days after its final passage by Council and approval
by the Mayor (unless Council overrides the Mayor's veto), unless the
Council shall adopt a resolution declaring an emergency and at least
2/3 of the Council vote in favor of such resolution. Nothing herein
shall affect the provisions of the local bond law with respect to
the effective date of ordinances passed pursuant thereto.
Whenever an ordinance has been vetoed by the Mayor and is passed
by the Council over such veto in the manner provided by law, 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
Council on _____ day of __________, 20____, and was vetoed by the
Mayor by his/her action whereby (s)he returned the said ordinance
to the Council by delivering it to the Municipal Clerk together with
a statement setting forth his/her objections thereto and thereafter
on the _____ day of __________, 20____, the Council did by a vote
of 2/3 of the members thereof, resolve to override the Mayor's veto.
Signed, Municipal Clerk"
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Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without the Mayor's
signature by reason of his/her failure to return it to the Council
by filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has been presented
to him/her, 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
Council on the _____ day of __________ 20____, and, upon failure to
sign it or return and file it with the Clerk within 10 days thereafter,
said ordinance took effect in like manner as if the Mayor had signed
it.
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Dated
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Signed
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A.
Resolutions, unless laid over by a majority vote of the Council,
shall be acted upon at the same meeting at which they are introduced.
B.
In the absence of a statutory requirement to the contrary or objection
by any Council member, resolutions to be voted upon by the Council
may be introduced and read by title only, provided that the Clerk
shall have posted all such resolutions in their entirety on the public
bulletin board in the municipal building at least 24 hours prior to
the meeting where such resolution is to be considered.
