Marysville Municipal Code Art. 3 Motions, Resolutions, Ordinances, Proclamations And Contracts

Ordinances, resolutions and any other matters and subjects requiring formal action by the City Council must be introduced and sponsored by a member; provided, however, that either the City Manager or the City Attorney may, on their own initiative, present ordinances, resolutions, and other matters or subjects to the Council for consideration, and any Council member may assume sponsorship thereof by moving that such ordinances, resolutions, matters or subjects be adopted in accordance with law and policy; otherwise they shall not be considered.

(a) Any member who wishes to introduce an ordinance shall first present to the Council in open session the concept of the ordinance, including its principal objectives.

(1) Unless a majority of the whole membership of the Council objects to the drafting of such ordinance, the City Attorney shall draft the proposed ordinance, as more fully described in Section 304 hereof.

(b) Ordinances may be introduced and adopted by title and shall be read by title only by the City Clerk before consideration by the Council, unless any member requests a reading in full, which request shall be debated and disposed of in the usual manner by majority vote of the members present.

(c) Whenever action cannot be taken because the vote of the Council has resulted in a tie, the status quo shall continue in effect and the proposed ordinance, resolution or motion that produced the tie vote shall be removed from the agenda without prejudice to its reintroduction de novo at a later time.

Formal action of the City Council may be accomplished in all matters which do not expressly require approval or adoption by resolution or ordinance, by motion duly adopted by a majority of the members present, and recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

(a) Decisions taken by the Council pursuant to this section shall be known as Minute Orders.

All actions of the City Council may, and where legally required shall, be taken by resolution or ordinance; provided, however, that any action of the Council which: 1) provides a penalty or establishes a rule or regulation for the violation of which a penalty is imposed; or 2) creates land-use designations or allowable activities within land-use designations, shall be enacted only by ordinance.

Before presentation to the City Council for action, all ordinances shall have been reduced to writing and shall have been approved as to form and legal content by the City Attorney.

(a) Amendments offered by any Council member to any ordinance being heard and considered by the Council in session shall be available to each member in writing prior to adoption; provided, however, that this requirement shall be waived unless invoked by any member of the Council prior to consideration of the amendment.

When requested by the Council or an individual member as provided in Section 300(a), the City Attorney shall prepare ordinances, together with a summarized "Legislative Digest" of each measure, containing the City Attorney's impartial analysis of its operation of law, its penalties (if any), its assignment of administrative responsibility, its changes to existing law and policy, and such other pertinent matters as may be useful.

(a) Ordinances and Legislative Digests prepared pursuant to this section shall be delivered to the City Manager for his analysis of administrative effect and subsequent inclusion on the official agenda for an upcoming meeting.

Any Council member or the City Manager may request that a proclamation or certificate of appreciation or similar ceremonial instrument be issued in the name of the City Council by filing with the City Clerk a draft of the desired instrument or other writing containing the particulars upon which a proclamation or similar instrument can be prepared.

(a) Before it can be issued, each proclamation or similar instrument must be calendared for consideration at a regular meeting of the City Council;

(b) Proclamations and similar instruments may not commit the City Council, the City of Marysville, nor any of its officers, employees or agents to any course of action nor impose upon them any duty of any nature whatsoever;

(c) No proclamation or similar instrument may be issued for valuable consideration of any sort to any member or the City Manager;

(d) No proclamation or similar ceremonial instrument shall have the force of law or policy of the Council or of the City or any of its agencies, departments, divisions or offices.