Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-09-17
ARTICLE X. A Council.

Section l. All powers herein grant ed to and vested in the City of Yumf 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, shal' be vested with all powers of legisla tion in municipal affairs adequate tC a complete system of local government consistent with the constitution o' 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 it's mum Der to be Vice-president
 Section 8. The Council shall by ordinance, provide for the time and place of holding its meetings and the manner in which it's special meetings may be called.
 Section f. All legislative sessions of the Council, whether regular 0. special shall be open to the public.
 Section ,. A majority of the COun cil shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time t. time and postpone the consideration of pending business in like manner.
 Section 6. The Council shall ueLtr mine its own rules of procedure, may punish its members for disOrderly conduct and compel their attendance 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 any 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 vote shall be entered on the minutes as an affirmative vote.
 (3) No ordinance or resolution shall be passed or become effective without receiving the affirmative votes of a majority of all the mem bers of the Council.
 (4 Every ordinance shall be pre- ceded by brief title which shall in dicate the subject and purport thereof
 (5) The ordaining clause of the or d:nance shall be: ''The City Council of the City of Yuma do ordain as fol ho do 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 fol lows:".
 (6) No ordinance shall be passed by the CouI,cil on the day of it's intro duction, nor within five days there after, nor at any other time than al 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 iii pursuanc of a gen eral law of the state.
 (S) When any ordinance is put upon its final passage and fails to pass, and a motion is made to recon slider, 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 by reference to its title only, but the ordinance to he revised or re-enacted, or the sec tion or sections thereof to be amend ed, 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.
 (1O) All ordinances, resolutions or franchises shall be passed by the Council and signed by the Mayor and atteSted by the city recorder and iran