Title
Legislative Procedure Updates - For the purpose of clarifying the rules of procedure for the passage or ordinances, charter amendments and resolutions.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 26-18
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Legislative Procedure Updates
FOR the purpose of clarifying the rules of procedure for the passage of ordinances, charter amendments and resolutions.
BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2018 Edition
2.16.090
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
TITLE 2 - ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 2.16 - CITY COUNCIL
Article 1 - Rules of Procedure
Section 2.16.090 - Reading, amendment and passage of ordinances, etc.
A. All laws shall be enacted by ordinance or charter amendment. Every ordinance and every charter amendment shall be read three times by its title before a final vote is taken for its passage. However, by unanimous consent of the council in session, this procedure may be waived and the ordinance read two times by title only and the third reading shall not be held. No ordinance or charter amendment shall be amended except upon its second reading. Every ordinance and every charter amendment shall be read the first time at the meeting at which it is introduced and a vote shall be taken on the first reading. The ordinance or charter amendment shall then lie on the table, after which it shall be read the second and third time and final action taken. All three readings of an ordinance and charter amendment shall occur during the same term of the Council.
B. With the exception of referrals to the Planning Commission, all ordinances, resolutions and charter amendments shall be discharged without the necessity of a motion from any committee or commission to which it has ...
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