Legislative procedure.
Section 14
SEC 14. Legislative procedure.—The City Council shall hold one regular session for the transaction of business each week on a day which it shall fix by resolution, and such special sessions as may be necessary for the public interest as may be called by the City Mayor. Its sessions, regular or special, shall be open to the public, unless otherwise ordered by the affirmative votes of a majority of all the members of the Council. It shall keep a record of all its proceedings and determine its rules of procedure not herein set forth. A majority of all the members of the Council 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 who is absent without good cause by issuing to the police of the city an order for his arrest and attendance at the session under such penalties as shall have been previously prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative votes of a majority of all the members 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 session 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. Each approved ordinance, resolution or motion shall be sealed with the seal of the City Council, and recorded in a book kept 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 places, and shall take effect and be in force on and after the tenth day following its passage unless otherwise stated in said ordinance, resolution or motion, or vetoed by the City Mayor as hereinafter provided. A vetoed ordinance, if re-passed, shall take effect ten days after the veto is over riden by the required votes unless otherwise stated in the ordinance, resolution or motion. Each ordinance and each resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, enacted or adopted by the Council, shall be forwarded to the City Mayor for his approval. Within ten days after the receipt of the ordinance, resolution or motion, the City 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 again be enacted by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the Council. The City Mayor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items of an appropriation ordinance, or of any 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 or motions returned to the Council with his veto; but should an item or items in an appropriation ordinance be. disapproved by the City Mayor, the corresponding item or items in the appropriation ordinance of the previous year shall be deemed reenacted.