Method of transacting business by Board—Veto, authentication and publication of ordinances.
Section 18
SEC. 18. Method of transacting business by Board—Veto, authentication and publication of ordinances.—Unless the Secretary of the Interior orders otherwise, the Board shall hold one ordinary session every two weeks for the transaction of business on days which it shall fix by resolution, and such extraordinary sessions, not exceeding ten during any one year, (except the sessions provided for in section thirty-seven of this charter) as may be called by the Mayor. It shall sit with open doors unless otherwise ordered by an affirmative vote of four members. It shall keep a record of its proceedings and determine its rules of procedure as herein set forth. Four members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and four affirmative votes shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance, resolution, or motion. The ayes and noes shall be taken and recorded upon the passage of all ordinances, upon all resolutions or motions directing the payment of money or creating liability, and, at the request of any member, upon any other resolution or motion. Each ordinance enacted by the Board, and each resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating ability, shall be forwarded to the Mayor for his approval. Within ten days after the receipt of the ordinance, resolution or motion, the Mayor shall return it with his approval or veto. If he does not return it within that time, it shall be deemed to be approved. If he returns it with his veto, his reasons therefor in writing shall accompany it. It may then be again enacted by the affirmative votes of five members of the Board, and again forwarded to the Mayor for his approval, and if within ten days after its receipt he does not again return it with his veto, it shall be deemed to be approved. If within said time he again returns it with his veto, it shall be forwarded forthwith to the Provincial Board for its approval or disapproval. The Mayor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items of an appropriation ordinance, or of an ordinance, resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, but the veto shall not affect the item or items to which he does not object. The item or items objected to shall not take effect except in the manner heretofore provided in this section as to ordinances, resolutions and motions returned to the Board with his veto. Each approved ordinance shall be sealed with the city seal, signed by the president of the Board and the secretary, and recorded in a book kept for that purpose; shall be published within ten days after its approval; and if no date is fixed in the ordinance, said ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and after the twentieth day following its publication, unless the Provincial Board disapprove the same. In the event of the disapproval of the ordinance by the Provincial Board, the Mayor or the Municipal Board may appeal from such disapproval to the Secretary of the Interior, whose decision shall be final.