The city council shall consist of all the elective officers
of the city, and shall, except as otherwise provided by this Charter,
be vested with all the legislative powers of the city.
The council shall prescribe the time and place of its meetings
and the manner in which special meetings thereof may be called. The
city clerk shall be the clerk of the council, and shall, with the
president of the council, sign and attest all ordinances and resolutions.
A majority of all the members shall constitute a quorum to do business,
but a less number may adjourn. The council shall sit with open doors
at all legislative sessions and shall keep a journal of its proceedings
which shall be a public record.
No members of the council shall be elected or appointed to any
office, position, or employment, the compensation of which was increased
or fixed by the council while he was a member thereof until after
the expiration of one year from the date he ceased to be such a member.
The council shall have the following power: (a) to sell and
dispose of water works, ditches, gas works, electric light works,
or other public utilities, public buildings, real property used or
held for park purposes or any other real estate used or held for any
governmental purposes, providing, however, that before any sale thereof
shall be made the question of such sale and the terms and consideration
thereof shall be submitted to and ratified by a majority vote of the
qualified electors voting, and the vote thereon shall be by ballot
at a regular municipal election or at a special election called and
held in the manner provided for by law; and (b) by ordinance or resolution
to sell and dispose of and to lease any other real estate owned by
the municipality, upon such terms and conditions as such city council
may determine at a regular or special meeting; and deeds of conveyance
duly executed and acknowledged by the proper officers of the city
and purporting to have been made in pursuance of these provisions
shall be deemed prima facie evidence of due compliance with all the
requirements hereof.
Section
49 was made obsolete by Article XXII of the Colorado Constitution.
Every proposed ordinance shall be published once in full in
a daily newspaper of the city, at least ten days before its final
passage; and, after such final passage, it again shall be published
once in a daily newspaper as amended and completed, except that an
emergency ordinance passed as heretofore provided shall take effect
upon passage and be so published within three days; provided that,
in lieu of publication of an ordinance in a newspaper both prior to
and after passage thereof, by authority of the Council it may be published
in book or pamphlet form available for public inspection. There shall
be no final passage of an ordinance so placed in book or pamphlet
form until hearing thereon by the Council with notice of such hearing
published once in a daily newspaper at least ten days prior thereto.
Such notice shall state the time and place of such hearing, a description
which the Council deems sufficient to apprise interested persons of
the purpose of the ordinance, and the place at which the ordinance
is available for inspection. Such an ordinance shall be subject to
protest under Section
136 of
Article
XVI of this Charter and “final
passage and final publication” thereof shall be deemed to be
the time of passage of the ordinance following such hearing.
No ordinance or section thereof shall be amended or repealed
except by an ordinance regularly adopted.
No proposed ordinance granting any franchise shall be put upon
its final passage within sixty days after its introduction, nor until
it has been published not less than once a week for six consecutive
weeks in two daily newspapers of the city in general circulation.
The city clerk shall permanently retain on file a true and accurate
copy of all ordinances, resolutions and evidence of proper publication.
Ordinances adopted by a vote of the electors shall be permanently
retained separately. The term “on file” includes permanent
electronic, tape or other methods.
This Charter or any ordinance may be proved by a copy thereof,
certified to by the city clerk under seal of the city; or when printed
in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be printed by authority
of the city, the same shall be received in evidence in all court without
further proof.