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 Grapevine
 Code of Ordinances
 Part I. HOME RULE CHARTER
 Article 3. THE CITY COUNCIL

  § 3.11. Procedure for passage of ordinances.  

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  • (a)

    The City Council shall legislate by ordinance, and the enacting clause of every ordinance shall be, "Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Grapevine, Texas:" The City Attorney shall approve all ordinances adopted by the Council, as to the legality thereof, or shall file with the City Secretary his written legal objections thereto. Evidence of approval of an ordinance by the City Attorney may be by notation on the ordinance itself, or by separate paper or instrument. Every ordinance enacted by the Council shall be signed by the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, or by two Councilmen, and shall be filed with and recorded by the City Secretary. Except as otherwise herein specially provided, the descriptive caption of all ordinances shall be read in open meeting of the Council on two several days; provided, however, that upon the request of any one member of the Council, the ordinance shall be read in its entirety on either the first reading or second reading of the ordinance. All ordinances, unless otherwise provided by law or by the terms of such ordinance, shall take effect immediately upon final passage thereof. However, the requirement for reading ordinances on two several days and the reading of the descriptive caption may be dispensed with where an ordinance relating to the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or public welfare is adopted by the favorable vote of three-fourths of the members of the Council present, and contains a statement of the nature of the emergency.

    (b)

    Except as otherwise provided by Law or this Charter, the City Secretary shall give notice of the enactment of every ordinance imposing any penalty, fine or forfeiture for any violation of any of its provisions, and of every other ordinance required by Law or this Charter to be published, by causing the said ordinance, or its caption and penalty, to be published at least one time within ten days after final passage thereof in the Official Newspaper of the city. The affidavit of such publication by the publisher of such newspapers taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths and filed with the City Secretary, shall be conclusive proof of the legal publication and promulgation of such ordinance, in all Courts. Such ordinance shall take effect ten days after the date of such publication, provided that any penal ordinance passed as an emergency measure under the preceding paragraph of this Article shall take effect immediately on its publication. Every ordinance shall be authenticated by the signature of the Mayor and City Secretary, and shall be systematically recorded and indexed in an ordinance book in a manner approved by the Council. It shall only be necessary to record the caption or title of ordinance in the minutes or journal of council meetings.

    (c)

    The City Council shall have power to cause the ordinances of the city to be corrected, amended, revised, codified, and printed in Code form, as often as the Council deems advisable; and, such printed Code, when adopted by the Council, shall be in full force and effect without the necessity of publishing the same, or any part thereof, in a newspaper. Such printed Code shall be admitted in evidence in all Courts and places without further proof.

(Ord. No. 78-20, § 2(B), 4-4-78; Ord. No. 92-21, § 2(E), 5-5-92)