San Leandro Municipal Code Art. 3 Procedure

(Legislative History: Ordinance No. 82-084, 11/1/82; Ordinance No. 82-031, 5/24/82; Ordinance No. 86-030, 8/18/86)

Actions of the Council shall be taken by ordinance, resolution or motion.

Actions of the Council shall require the affirmative votes of a majority of the entire Council membership.

At the time of its introduction or adoption, an ordinance or resolution shall be ready by title only, unless a Council Member or the Mayor requests that the ordinance or resolution be read in full. Any matter designated as a consent item regularly appearing on the City Council agenda and available for public inspection in the City Clerk's office may, by motion of the City Council, be deemed to have been read by title.

Ordinances and resolutions shall be numbered in separate series with the last two numbers of the year in which introduced followed by a dash and a consecutive number beginning with the number one each calendar year. The consecutive numbers assigned to ordinances shall be preceded by a zero.

The City Clerk shall authenticate by signature all ordinances and resolutions adopted by the Council.

The title of each ordinance passed to print shall be published once and the City Clerk shall post a complete copy thereof on the City Council Chamber bulletin board for five days prior to adoption. The title of each ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 1-1-345 shall be published once and the City Clerk shall post a complete copy thereof on the City Council Chamber bulletin board for five days following adoption.

No ordinance shall be adopted within five days after its passage to print.

No ordinance shall be altered as to a matter of substance after its passage to print. Correction of typographical or clerical errors shall not constitute alteration as to a matter of substance.

Each ordinance shall be effective 30 days after its adoption, or at a later date specified therein.

Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Article, an ordinance may be introduced and adopted at the same meeting, and shall be effective upon adoption, if it is an ordinance:

(a) relating to an election;

(b) for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, containing a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency;

(c) relating to public improvement proceedings;

(d) relating to taxes for the usual and current expenses of the City;

(e) annexing territory to the City;

(f) covered by particular provisions of law prescribing the manner of its passage and adoption.

The Council may adopt any comprehensive code of technical regulations by reference thereto in an adopting ordinance.

Any ordinance may be compiled into a comprehensive code which the Council may adopt by reference thereto in an adopting ordinance.

Comprehensive codes of regulations or of ordinances adopted by reference need not be published, provided that copies thereof shall be available at the office of the City Clerk for use or purchase by the public.

Repeal or amendment of codified ordinances, or additions to a comprehensive code, shall be accomplished by reference to numerical designations assigned thereto for the purpose of arrangement and indexing of the comprehensive code.

The City Clerk shall compile and maintain a Traffic Code, in duplicate, which shall contain, in logical format and order, all ordinances, resolutions and regulations adopted pursuant to Title 6. The ordinance or resolution number shall be indicated in the Traffic Code. The Traffic Code shall be updated periodically. The Traffic Code shall be a public record.