Richmond Municipal Code Ch. 2.08 Passage and Adoption of Ordinances

(a) Any ordinance of the City of Richmond presented for passage and adoption shall first be read at a regular or special meeting of the Council and shall be laid over to a regular or special meeting of the Council not less than five days thereafter at which time it shall be read for the second time before its passage and adoption; provided that in cases of emergency, the existence of which emergency shall be declared in such ordinance, any ordinance may be passed and adopted upon the first reading thereof.

(b) A brief notice of each ordinance passed and adopted shall be thereafter published once, in a newspaper of general circulation published in said City, within fifteen (15) days from the date it was adopted. If there is no newspaper published in said City, such notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the county and circulated in the City or be posted in at least three public places in the City. Such notice shall state the date of the passage and adoption of the ordinance, referring to it by its number and Title, contain a brief summary of the ordinance's contents, and state that copies thereof may be obtained from the City Clerk upon request.

All ordinances shall be certified by the Clerk of the City of Richmond, and approved by the Mayor, or in the absence of the Mayor, by the Vice Mayor.

The Clerk of the City of Richmond shall keep a book marked "ORDINANCES" in which he shall copy all City ordinances with his certificate attached to each copy, to the effect that the same is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Richmond, and the same has been published according to law.

(Source Ordinance No. 38-99 N.S.)