Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-09-24
ARTICLE x. a C0InCii

A CouncIi.
 Section 1. All powers herein grant ed to and vested in the City of Yuma shall, except as herein otherwise pro vided, be exercised by a Council tC be designated the City Council of the City of Yuma. Said Council shall be the governing body of the City, and shall consist of a Mayor and four Councilmen, and, subject to the eX' press limitations of this Charter, shap be vested with all powers of legisla tion in municipal affairs adequate tC a complete system of local government consistent with the constitution -of the state.
 Section 2. The Mayor shall be presi dent of the Council, and shall preside at its meetings when present. The Council shall elect one of its mum Der to be vice-president.
 Section 8. The Council shall, by ordinance, provide for the time anc place of holding its meetings and tho manner in which it's special meetings may be called.
 Section 4. All legislative sessions of the Council, whether regular 0, special, shall be open to the public.
 Section 5. majority of the COun cil shall constitute a quorum for tht transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time tt time and postpone the consideration of pending business in like manner.
 Section 6. The Council shall ueLer mine its own rules of procedure, may punish its members for disorderly conduct and compel their attendanco at the council meetings.
 Section z.
 CD The Council shall act only by ordinance or resolution.
 CD The ayes and noes shall b. taken upon the passage of all ordi nances and resolutions and entered upon the minutes of the proceeding. of the Council. Upon request of an, member, the ayes and noes shall be taken and recorded on any vote. Nc member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the con sideration of his own official conduct In all other cases a failure to votf shall be entered on the minutes as an affirmative vote.
 (3) No ordinance or resolution
  without receiving the affirmativ votes of a majority of all the mem bers of the Council.
 (4 Every ordinance shall be pre- ceded by a brief title which shall in dicate the subject and purport thereof
 (5 The ordaining clause of the or dinance shall be: "The City Council of the City of Yuma do ordain as fol lows:" and the ordaining clause of all ordinances adopted in accordance with the provisions of Article VI of this Charter shall be: "The people of the City of Yuma do ordain as fo! lows:".
 (6) No ordinance shall be passed by the Council on the day of it's intro duction, nor within five days ther: after, nor at any other time than at a regular meeting.
 CD No action providing for any specific improvement, for the appro .priation or expenditure of any public money, except a sum less than fiv.' hundred (500) dollars, for the appro priation, acquisition, sale or lease O. public property; for the levying of any tax or assessment; for the grant ing of any franchise; for establishing or changing fire limits; or for the i'm posing of any penalty, shall be taken except by ordinance; provided, that such exceptions be observed as ma be called for in cases where the Coun- .cil takes action in pursuanc of a gen eral law of the state
 (S) When any ordinance is put upon its final passage and fails tC pass, and a motion is made to recon sider, the vote upon such motion shall not be taken except at a meet ing of the Council held not less than one week after the meeting at which such motion was made
 (9) No ordinance shall be revised -re-enacted or amended bv reference to its title only, but the ordinance to be revised or re-enacted, or the sec. tion or sections thereof to be amend eed, or the new section or sections to be added thereto, shall be set forth and adopted in the method provided in this section for the adoption of or dinances.
 Q0) All ordinances, resolutions or franchises shall be passed by the Council and signed by the Mayor and attested by the city recorder and tran