No ordinance shall be prepared for presentation to the Council unless ordered by a majority vote of the Council, requested in writing by the Mayor or prepared by the City Manager or City Attorney on his or her own initiative.
(Ord. 93-72 § 66, 1972)
All ordinances, resolutions and contract documents shall, before presentation to the Council, have been approved as to form by the City Attorney or authorized representative, and shall have been examined and approved for administration by the City Manager where there are substantive matters of administration involved.
(Ord. 93-72 § 67, 1972)
Ordinances, resolutions and other matters or subjects requiring action by the Council must be introduced and sponsored by a member of the Council, except that the City Manager or City Attorney may present ordinances, resolutions and other matters or subjects to the Council, and any Councilmember may assume sponsorship thereof by moving that such ordinances, resolutions, matters or subjects be adopted, otherwise, they shall not be considered.
(Ord. 93-72 § 68(1), 1972)
Ordinances shall not be passed within five days of their introduction nor at other than a regular meeting or at a regular adjourned meeting. However, an urgency ordinance may be passed immediately upon introduction and either at a regular or special meeting. Except when after reading the title, further reading is waived by regular motion adopted by unanimous vote of the Councilmembers present. All ordinances shall be read in full either at the time of introduction or passage. When ordinances, other than urgency ordinances, are altered after introduction, they shall be passed only at a regular or at a regular adjourned meeting held at least five days after alteration. Corrections of typographical or clerical errors are not alterations within the meaning of this section.
(Ord. 93-72 § 68(2), 1972)
Resolutions or orders for the payment of money shall be adopted or made only at a regular meeting or special meeting for which the notice specifies the business to be transacted.
(Ord. 93-72 § 68(3), 1972; amended during 1990 republication)
Ordinances, where ordinances are required by law, resolutions granting franchises and resolutions and orders for the payment of money, require the votes of at least three Councilmembers for passage.
(Ord. 93-72 § 68(4), 1972)
Four affirmative votes of the City Council of the City of Union City shall be required in order to adopt the resolution of the City Council of the City of Union City setting the annual assessment levy, ordering the preparation of an amended Engineer's Report, overruling protests, and confirming diagram and assessment and levying assessment for each fiscal year for the proposed annual levy for the City-Wide Landscape and Lighting District when the levy exceeds a three percent increase over the prior fiscal year's annual assessment levy.
(Ord. 411-93 § 1, 1993)
Under the authority of Ordinance 605-03, adopted by the City Council of the City of Union City on February 11, 2003, beginning November 2004, the general municipal elections of the City shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year.
(Ord. 206-82 § 1, 1982; Ord. 630-04, 2004)