Section 5
SEC. 5. The first and last paragraphs of Section fourteen of the same Act, are amended to read as follows: "SEC. 14. Method of transacting business by the Board. —Veto—Authentication and publication of ordinances.&mdashThe Board shall hold one ordinary session for the transaction of business during each week on days which it shall fix by resolution, and extraordinary sessions as may be called by the Mayor. However, any five members of the Board may call special meetings of the Board upon at least twenty-four hours notice to each member. Such notice shall be delivered personally to each member or left at his usual place of residence with some responsible person. It shall sit with open doors, unless otherwise ordered by an affirmative vote of five members. It shall keep a record of its proceedings and determine its rules of procedure not herein set forth. Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. But a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the immediate attendance of any member absent without good cause by issuing to the police of the city an order for his arrest and production at the session under such penalties as shall have been previously prescribed by ordinance. Five affirmative votes shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance, or of any resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, but other measures shall prevail upon the majority votes of the members present at any meeting duly called and held. The ayes and nays 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. Every ordinance and every resolution shall be presented in writing and read in full before a vote is taken thereof: Provided, That the reading may be dispensed with by unanimous consent. Except for emergency ordinances, no ordinance shall be passed at the meeting at which it is introduced and until at least two days have elapsed between its introduction and final passage. Should the Board by unanimous vote of a quorum declare the existence of an emergency due to a public calamity, the Board by unanimous vote of a quorum may waive all of the procedural and publication requirements of this section except those relating to the number of votes required for passage of an ordinance, the submission of ordinances and resolutions to the Mayor for his approval, and the official record of each ordinance and resolution and the vote thereon: Provided, however, That no prosecution shall be based upon the provisions of an emergency ordinance until twenty-four hours after the ordinance has been filed with the Secretary of the Board and posted or published as provided herein unless the person charged with violation had actual notice of the passage, of the ordinance prior to the act or omission with which he is charged. Each approved ordinance, resolution or motion shall be sealed with the seal of the Board, signed by the presiding officer and the secretary of the Board and recorded in the book for the purpose and shall, on the day following its passage, be posted by the secretary at the main entrance of the city hall and in at least two other public and conspicuous places in the city, and shall take effect and be enforced on and after the tenth day following its passage unless otherwise stated in said ordinance, resolution or motion or vetoed by the Mayor as hereinafter provided. A vetoed ordinance, if repassed, shall take effect ten days after the veto is overridden by the required votes unless otherwise stated in the ordinance or again disapproved by the Mayor within said time. "Any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, if (a) the appropriation ordinance appropriates an aggregate amount not exceeding- the estimated tax receipts and/or income for the ensuing year, certified collectible by the City Treasurer; (b) provisions have been made for the statutory and/or current contractual obligations of the city; and (c) no official or employee shall receive a salary higher than the maximum salary provided by subsisting salary laws and executive orders, the city budget shall be in full force and effect on the date fixed therein for its effectivity by the Municipal Board and the same shall not be subject to the approval of the Secretary of'Finance."