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City of Bridgeton, NJ
Cumberland County
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New Laws (7) Index
A. 
Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced and sponsored by a member of Council except that the Mayor, Clerk or City Solicitor may present ordinances and resolutions to Council and any Council member may assume sponsorship thereof by moving that such ordinance or resolution be adopted; otherwise they shall not be considered.
B. 
Ordinances shall be prepared by the City Solicitor upon request by a member of Council, the Mayor, or the Business Administrator or upon the City Solicitor's own recommendation. Resolutions may be prepared by the Mayor, Clerk or City Solicitor.
C. 
Each ordinance and resolution shall be limited to a single object which shall be expressed in the title or easily ascertainable by its context.
D. 
Prior to introduction, each proposed ordinance or resolution requiring or permitting administrative action may be submitted to the Business Administrator and the department head concerned, each of whom shall submit to Council an opinion in writing as to the administrative implications of the proposed ordinance or resolution.
E. 
Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced and read by title.
A. 
Enactment. All ordinances shall be introduced, read, heard and enacted in the manner provided by general law.
B. 
Signatures. Each ordinance passed by the Council shall be forthwith delivered by the Clerk to the Mayor. Each ordinance shall be returned by the Mayor to the Clerk, after the Mayor has affixed his signature thereto or after expiration of 10 days from the date of delivery to the Mayor in any event.
C. 
Effective date. No ordinance other than the Local Budget Ordinance shall take effect less than 20 days after its final passage by the Council and approval by the Mayor where such approval is required unless the Council shall adopt a resolution declaring an emergency and at least 2/3 of all the members of the Council vote in favor of such resolution. (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-181)
D. 
Passage over veto. The Council will reconsider any ordinance returned by the Mayor within the time permitted by the Charter together with a statement setting forth the Mayor's objections thereto or to any item or part thereof. Such reconsideration of the ordinance or any item or part thereof from which the Mayor is constrained to withhold approval shall be at the next meeting of Council which occurs not less than three days following the return of the ordinance by the Mayor. Whenever an ordinance has been reconsidered by the Council following a veto by the Mayor, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance a certification of the action of the Council upon such reconsideration in substantially the following form:
[Amended 9-19-2017 by Ord. No. 17-20]
"I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance adopted by the Council of the City of Bridgeton on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____, was delivered to me on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____, together with the Mayor's statement of the reasons for which the Mayor was constrained to withhold approval of such ordinance, item or part thereof. On reconsideration thereof, on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____, (the Council duly resolved by the affirmative vote of 2/3 of its members to enact such ordinance, item or part thereof, notwithstanding the Mayor's veto) or (the Mayor's veto was sustained).
Dated:
              Municipal Clerk
E. 
Ordinances not returned by Mayor. Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without the Mayor's signature by reason of the Mayor's failure to return it to the Council by filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has been presented to the Mayor, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance a certificate in substantially the following form:
[Amended 9-19-2017 by Ord. No. 17-20]
"I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance was adopted by the City Council on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____, and was presented to the Mayor duly certified on the _____ day of _______________, 20_____, and upon the Mayor's failure to sign it or to return and file it with the Clerk within 10 days thereafter, the ordinance took effect in like manner, as if the Mayor had signed it.
Dated:
              Municipal Clerk