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Town of Georgetown, DE
Sussex County
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown 11-14-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-20.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance was originally designated to be added as Ch. 2 but was renumbered to maintain the organization of the Code.
Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form, and shall not contain more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in a title; but general appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are to be appropriated. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be: "Be It Enacted by the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown."
A. 
No ordinance, unless it be an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read at two regular meetings, not less than one week apart, or the requirement of such reading has been dispensed with by an affirmative vote of at least five members of council.
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"Reading" is defined as being a verbatim reading of the proposed ordinance or a general description of the purpose and contents of the proposed ordinance. Copies of the full printed ordinance shall be made available to the public for their inspection at the Town Hall.
No ordinance or resolution or sections thereof shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution or section revised or amended, and a repeal of the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections so amended.
All ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect at the time of adoption, unless otherwise specified in the ordinance or resolution. The Council may, by a vote of two of its members, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for an emergency in the usual daily operation of a municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto.