Amending Article 1 of Chapter 2 The Common Council

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the Common Council, the City Clerk's Office shall then assign it a Resolution number. All other acts carrying a penalty for the violation thereof, shall be by ordinance and each ordinance shall be identified by a Bill number which is assigned by the City Clerk's Office upon proper filing with said office. and Each Ordinance must have a short title, of-by-a-Cede seebien-number-when-a-eedi€ieatien-or-eempiiation of-erdinanees-is-eemplebed. and must specifically refer to the Chapter, Article and Section of the Code, when proposing an amendment to the City Code. Ordinances shall be numbered in the order as they are passed, but dispatched in the order as they are introduced by bill number except when the Council shall direct otherwise: • (1) Each bill filed for ordinance consideration shall begin after a preliminary "Statement of Purpose and Intent" which shall set forth clear and concise paragraphs describing the overall purpose of the Bill. by-the-€oiiewing: Following the end of the statement of Purpose and Intent, the next paragraph shall begin as follows: "Now Therefore, Be It Ordained by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, as follows: " and a section by section format shall follow. (2) All bills filed for ordinance consideration which containing words which shall add words to an existing efdinanee City Code Section(s) shall be underlined ( ) . (3) All bills filed for ordinance consideration which requesting deletion of words from an existing ordinance City Code Section(s) shall indicate said deletion by a dash through said word or words ( ) . (4) Any bill filed for ordinance consideration which does not conform to the requirements of this subsection may be rejected by the City clerk when presented for filing. (5) All Resolutions and Ordinances must be accompanied with a separate letter from the party initiating such Resolution or Ordinance. Each letter should be clearly written and should summarize the salient Uoints of the Resolution or Ordinance. Any Resolution or Ordinance which is not accompanied by such a letter of explanation may be rejected by the City Clerk's office when presented for filing. (6) All Resolutions and Ordinances must be typed on 8 1/2" x 14" or 8 1/2" x 11" size paper. (w) Every bill filed for Ordinance consideration shall be read bwe fH} a total of three (3) times by Title by the Clerk. with-each-having-its-own-pt blie-bearing-and vote-as-be-its-passage. No bill shall be read the seeend third time at the same meeting it is introduced unless by unanimous roll call vote of all Councilmen present. Additionally there must be at least two- thirds of the entire Council present to carry such a motion. The City Clerk shall read by title only all Bills filed fir f=i r�•1- re.x.•74,, T4— 4.1...4— 4—...... LL... ^----41