After the election of the Mayor and/or Councilpersons, the City Council shall meet and canvass the returns of the election, at which time all elected officers shall qualify and assume the duties of their office, or meet as soon thereafter as practicable but not later than thirty (30) days after the election; thereafter, the Council shall meet at such times as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution, but it shall meet at least once each month.
The Mayor or any three (3) Councilpersons may call special meetings of the City Council at any time deemed advisable, after due notice to all members, including the Mayor. The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a journal of its proceedings in a permanent bound book, and any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records thereof at all reasonable times. The Mayor Pro Tem and any three (3) members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the affirmative vote of three (3) members of the Council shall be sufficient and necessary to adopt or repeal any ordinance or resolution. All members of the City Council present at a meeting shall vote upon every question, ordinance or resolution either “yea” or “nay” which shall be entered on said journal. Any Councilperson refusing to vote shall be entered on the journal and counted as voting in the affirmative, except where disqualified from voting under state law. Every ordinance or resolution passed by the City Council shall be signed by the Mayor or in his or her absence by the Mayor Pro Tem, and such ordinance or resolution shall be attested by the person acting as City Secretary, and the seal of the City impressed thereon within ten (10) days after its passage, but such ordinance or resolution shall not be invalidated merely because the signature of either of such officers shall be lacking or the failure to impress the City seal on the same.
(Amended by electorate 4/7/84)
(a) 
Every ordinance required by this Charter to be published, or imposing any penalty, fine, or forfeiture, shall, after the passage thereof, be published once in a newspaper having general circulation in the City, and no such ordinance shall become effective until after the date of such publication, or thirty (30) days after its passage, whichever is later.
(b) 
In lieu of the publication required in subparagraph (a) of this section, the Council may, in its discretion, provide for the publication of a descriptive caption or title, stating in summary the purpose of the ordinances and the penalty for violation thereof; and
(c) 
The Council may publish its ordinances in pamphlet or book form and need not republish such ordinances as have been previously published. All such ordinances, where printed and published by authority of the City Council shall be admitted and received in all courts without further proof.
(d) 
An ordinance declared an emergency by the City Council shall become effective immediately upon passage.
(Amended by electorate 4/7/84)
(a) 
Every ordinance or resolution, upon its becoming effective, shall be recorded in a permanent bound book kept for such purpose and shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor and the person exercising the duties of the City Secretary; and
(b) 
The Council shall cause a Code of Civil and Criminal ordinances to be prepared as early as practicable, and enacted as to give effect to this Charter; and to repeal or revise such ordinances as may be obsolete or in conflict with this Charter.
(c) 
The Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances shall be reviewed and revised every two (2) years.
In addition to such acts of the Council as are required by statute or by this Charter to be passed by ordinance, every act of the Council establishing a fine or other penalties or for the contracting of indebtedness shall be by ordinance. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be “BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GIDDINGS.”
Any matter brought before the City Council on first presentation shall be tabled to the next meeting at the request of the Mayor, City Manager, any Council member or the City Attorney.