The enacting clause of all ordinances shall read, "The City of Royal Oak Ordains," but such caption may be omitted when said ordinances are published in book form or are revised and digested by authority of the Commission.
The adoption of any ordinance by the Commission shall require for its passage the concurrence of a majority of all the members of the Commission.
The time when any ordinance shall take effect shall be prescribed therein, which time shall not be less than 10 days from the date of its passage, except emergency ordinances, which may be given immediate effect. No ordinance shall be finally passed on the day it is introduced, except in case of public emergency. An emergency ordinance shall be defined to be one necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a department which contains a statement of its urgency.
Immediately upon the final passage of any ordinance, the Mayor and Clerk shall sign the same under a certificate of the day and date of its passage.
(a) 
Except as otherwise provided in this section, all ordinances shall be published once within one week of their passage, in summary form in a newspaper printed or circulated within the City and in full on the Internet. The Clerk shall certify on the record of ordinances, the date of publication in the newspaper and on the Internet in which any ordinance was so published. Such certificate shall be prima facie evidence that legal publication of an ordinance has been made.
[Amended and adopted 11-3-2009]
(b) 
The Commission may direct a codification of the general ordinances of the City in loose-leaf or pamphlet form and cause such codification to be maintained thereafter in current form. Any such codification may originally include provisions not previously contained in ordinances of the City. The Commission shall provide for making printed copies of the original codification available for public inspection and for distribution to the public at a reasonable charge and shall publish notice of the printing and availability of such original codification at least 10 days before the effective date thereof. Such printing and making available of the codification and notice thereof shall constitute publication of any such original codification.
[Amended and adopted 11-3-1953]
All ordinances shall be recorded in an index book marked "Ordinance Record;" and record of each ordinance shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor and Clerk. Such record and authentication shall be done within one week after the final passage of any ordinance, but failure to so record and authenticate any ordinance shall not invalidate it or suspend its operation.
No repealed ordinance shall be revived unless the whole or so much as is intended to be revived shall be re-enacted. When any section or part of a section of any ordinance is amended, the whole section shall be re-enacted.
Prosecutions for violation of any ordinance of the City shall be commenced within two years after the commission of the offense; provided that the limitations herein imposed shall only apply to violations penal in their nature, and shall not be construed as a limitation of the City's right to forfeit any franchise, grant, or license for violation of the terms and conditions thereof, after said two-year period.
[Amended and adopted 9-12-1950]
Prosecutions for violations of the ordinances of the City may be commenced by warrant, and all process in such cases shall be in the name of "The People of the State of Michigan." The practice in such cases shall be the same, as near as may be, as in the criminal cases cognizant by Justices of the Peace under the General Laws of the State or as may be provided for cases cognizable by the Municipal Court hereafter created.
All process issued in any prosecution or proceeding for the violation of any ordinance, shall be directed to any police officer of the City, or County of Oakland, and may be executed in any part of the State by said officer or any other officer authorized by law to serve process issued by a Justice of the Peace.
In all judicial proceedings it shall be sufficient to plead any ordinance by title and the number of section or sections, and it shall not be necessary to plead the entire ordinance or section.
Judicial notice shall be taken of the enactment, existence, provisions, and continuing force of all ordinances of the Village of Royal Oak adopted under the provisions of this Charter.
Whenever it shall be necessary to prove any ordinance or resolution of the Commission, in any judicial proceedings, the same may be proved from the record thereof kept by the Clerk, by a copy thereof, duly certified by the Clerk under the seal of the City, or from any volume purporting to have been published, printed, or compiled by authority of the Commission.
[Amended and adopted 11-2-1999]
Ordinance Violation: Penalties. The Commission has the authority to provide for the punishment of those who violate its ordinances. Punishment for the violation of any ordinance shall not exceed a fine of $500 and/or imprisonment for 90 days or such fine and/or term as allowed for by the State of Michigan, in the discretion of the court.
All ordinances, regulations, and resolutions in force at the time this Charter shall take effect and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall remain and be in force until amended, modified, or repealed.