Opinion ID: 1808883
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Heading: The Effect of Express Limitations on the Mayor's Veto Power

Text: Section 3.15 places express limitations upon the mayor's power to veto ordinances, and none of these limitations relates to ordinances adopting budgets. [6] The legislature expressly provided that the mayor lacks the power to veto appointments of the council and any actions relating to an investigation by the council but does not mention ordinances adopting budgets. Under the rule of expressio unius est exclusio alterius, we must construe § 3.15 as excluding other subjects from which the sweep of the mayor's veto power is withheld. Champion v. McLean, 266 Ala. 103, 112, 95 So.2d 82, 91 (1957). (According to this rule of construction, where a statute enumerates certain things on which it is to operate, the statute is to be construed as excluding from its effect all those things not expressly mentioned.).