A.
All ordinances shall be prepared by the Legal Department
upon direction of the Council or the Mayor. Prior to introduction,
each proposed ordinance requiring or permitting administrative action
shall be submitted to the Administrator and the Department Head concerned,
each of whom shall submit to the Council an opinion as to the administrative
implications of the proposed ordinance or resolution.
B.
An ordinance or resolution may be introduced by any
member of Council. Each ordinance and resolution shall be limited
to a single object, which shall be expressed in its title.
C.
All ordinances shall be introduced, read, heard, and
enacted in the manner provided by general law. In accordance with
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40A:61-4d, every ordinance adopted by Council
shall, within five days after its passage, Sundays excepted, be presented
to the Mayor by the City Clerk. The Mayor shall, within 10 days after
receiving the ordinance, Sundays excepted, either approve the ordinance
by affixing his signature thereto or return it to the Council by delivering
it to the Clerk with a statement setting forth his objections thereto
or any item or part thereof.
[Amended 12-2-2014 by Ord. No. 1663]
The Council will consider any ordinance returned
by the Mayor without his/her approval. Such reconsideration of the
ordinance, or any item or part thereof from which the Mayor constrained
to withhold his/her approval, shall be at the next meeting of Council
which occurs not less than three nor more than 30 days following the
return of the ordinance by the Mayor. Whenever any ordinance has been
reconsidered by the Council following the veto of 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:
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance, adopted
by the Council on the _____ day of _____, _____, was delivered to
the Mayor on the _____ day of _____, _____, together with the Mayor's
statement of the reasons for which he/she was constrained to withhold
his/her approval of such ordinance, item, or part thereof. On reconsideration
thereof on the _____ day of __________, _____, (the Council duly resolved
by the affirmative vote of five of its members to enact such ordinance,
item, or part thereof, notwithstanding the Mayor's veto) or (the Mayor's
veto was sustained).
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Dated:
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Clerk
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Whenever an ordinance shall take effect without
the Mayor's signature by reason of his/her failure to return it to
the Council by filing it with the Clerk within 10 days after it has
been presented to him/her, the Clerk shall append to such ordinance
a certificate in substantially the following form:
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above ordinance was
adopted by the Council on the _____ day of _____, _____, and was presented
to the Mayor duly certified on the _____ day of _____, _____, and
upon his/her failure to sign or return and file it with the Clerk
within 10 days thereafter, the said ordinance took effect in like
manner as if the Mayor had signed it.
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Dated:
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Clerk
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