§ 1.12.030. Ordinance passage.

A.

An ordinance may be presented for consideration only by a councilmember or the city manager at any regular or special meeting of the city countil. Upon presentation, an ordinance shall be accepted as being introduced, deferred, referred committee or rejected. Promptly after introduction the council shall publish the ordinance and a notice setting out the time and place for a public hearing on the ordinance. The public hearing of an ordinance shall follow publication by at least five days; it may be held at a regular or special council meeting and may be adjourned from time to time. At the public hearing copies of the ordinance shall be read in full. All interested persons shall have an opportunity to be heard. If the ordinance is amended after the hearing as to any matter of major substance, the ordinance shall be treated as a newly introduced ordinance. After the hearing, the council shall consider the ordinance and may adopt it with or without amendment. The coundil shall print and make available copies of adopted ordinances.

B.

Ordinances take effect upon adoption or at a later date specified in the ordinance.

C.

As used in this section, the term "publish" means that the proposed ordinance and notice of hearing shall be posted in three public places for at least five days.

(Ord. 80-1 § 1 (part), 1980: prior code § 1.20.030).