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.
(a) 
In legislative sessions, the council shall act by ordinance, resolution or motion.
(b) 
The ayes and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, and entered upon the journal of its proceedings. Upon the request of any member, the ayes and nays shall be taken and recorded upon any motion. Every member when present must vote, and every ordinance passed by the city council shall require on final passage the affirmative vote of a majority of all members of the council.
(c) 
No ordinance shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, except in cases of special emergency, for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, and then only by the unanimous vote of all members of the council. No ordinance making a grant of any franchise or special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
(d) 
The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be in these words: “Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction.”
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.