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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018CV149 - SUTHERLAND V. CITY OF FORT COLLINS, STEVE MILLER & IRENE JOSEY - 030Q - EXHIBIT 13Section 6. - Ordinances, resolutions, motions. The Council shall act by ordinance, resolution, or motion. The ayes and nays shall be recorded on the passage of all ordinances, resolutions, and motions. Every Councilmember present shall vote; if a member fails to vote when present, he or she shall be recorded as voting in the affirmative. All legislative enactments and every act creating, altering, or abolishing any agency or office, fixing compensation, making an appropriation, authorizing the borrowing of money, levying a tax, establishing any rule or regulation for the violation of which a penalty is imposed, or placing any burden upon or limiting the use of private property, shall be by ordinance, which shall not be so altered or amended on the final passage as to change the original purpose. All ordinances, except the annual appropriation ordinance and any ordinance making a general codification of ordinances, shall be confined to one (1) subject which shall be clearly expressed in the title. All ordinances shall be formally introduced at a regular or special Council meeting in written or printed form by any member of the Council and considered on first reading and action taken thereon. No ordinance, except an emergency ordinance, shall be finally passed on the first reading or at the meeting at which it is first introduced. An emergency ordinance may be formally introduced at a special Council meeting and action taken thereon, including final passage at such special meeting. Reading of an ordinance shall consist only of reading the title thereof, provided that copies of the full ordinance proposed shall have been available in the office of the City Clerk at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the time such ordinance is introduced for each member of the City Council, and for inspection and copying by the general public, and provided further that any member of the City Council may request that an ordinance be read in full at any reading of the same, in which case such ordinance shall be read in full at such reading. Final passage of all ordinances except emergency ordinances shall be at a regular Council meeting. Emergency ordinances shall require for passage the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of the Council and shall contain a specific statement of the nature of the emergency. No ordinance granting any franchise or special privilege which involves a benefit to any private person or entity shall ever be passed as an emergency ordinance. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be as follows: "Be it Fort Collins, CO Municipal Code Page 1 of 2 about:blank 7/12/2018 DATE FILED: July 18, 2018 8:12 PM FILING ID: BF0E70FBC34B1 CASE NUMBER: 2018CV149 ordained by the Council of the City of Fort Collins." (Ord. No. 3, 1961, 2-23-61, approved, election 4-4-61; Ord. No. 94, 1972, 1-4-73, approved, election 2-20-73; Ord. No. 18, 1973, 2-15-73, approved, election 4-3-73; Ord. No. 202, 1986, § 1, Part X, 12- 16-86, approved, election 3-3-87; Ord. No. 203, 1986, § 1, Part A, 12-16-86, approved, election 3-3- 87) Fort Collins, CO Municipal Code Page 2 of 2 about:blank 7/12/2018