Sec. 3. City secretary. The commission shall appoint a city secretary, who shall hold his/her office at the pleasure of the commission. Sec. 4. Commission rules. members and, in such cases, shall have the power to subpoena witnesses and compel the production of all pertinent books, records, and papers; but the decision of the commission in any such case shall be subject to review by the courts. The commission shall determine its own rules and order of business and keep a journal of its proceedings. It shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members, may punish its members for disorderly behavior and, by vote of not less than a majority of all its members, may expel a member for disorderly conduct or the violation of its rules; but no member shall be expelled unless notified of the charge against the member and given an opportunity to be heard in his/her own defense. Sec. 5. Quorum. A majority of all the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a lesser number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote of a majority of all members of the commission shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance, resolution, or order; except that a vote to adjourn, or an action regarding the attendance of absent members, may be adopted by a majority of the members present. No member may be excused from voting except on matters involving the consideration of his/her own official conduct or when his/her financial interests are involved. Sec. 6. Introduction and passage of ordinances and resolutions. Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the commission only in written or printed form. All ordinances, except ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codifying or rearranging existing ordinances or enacting a code of ordinances, shall be clearly expressed in the title. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days, unless the requirements for reading it on three separate days be dispensed with by a vote of not less than a majority of all members of the commission. The final reading of each ordinance shall be in full unless written or printed copy thereof shall have been furnished to each member of the commission prior to such reading. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the commission. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be "Be it ordained by the City Commission of the City of Texas City." Sec. 7. When ordinances and resolutions shall take effect. Ordinances making the annual tax levy, appropriation ordinances, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of city affairs, resolutions requesting information from administrative officers or directing administrative action, and emergency measures shall take effect at the time indicated therein. All ordinances, except those imposing any penalty, fine or forfeiture, and all resolutions shall take effect immediately upon final passage unless otherwise specifically provided therein. Ordinances adopted by a vote of the electors shall take effect at the time indicated therein, or if no time be specified, then ten days after their adoption. No measure making or amending a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed until it has been read on three separate days. Sec. 8. Authentication and publication of ordinances and resolutions. Upon its final passage, each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signatures of the mayor and of the city secretary and shall be systematically recorded in a manner approved by the commission. Any ordinance may also be authenticated by the signatures of the city secretary and three members of the commission. Every ordinance imposing any penalty, fine, or forfeiture shall, after passage thereof, be published in one issue of the official paper; and proof of such publication shall be made by the printer or publisher of such paper, making affidavit before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, and filed with the person performing the duties of city secretary and said affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of such publication and promulgation of such ordinance in courts of the state; and such ordinance so published shall take effect, and be in force, from and after ten days after publication thereof, unless otherwise expressly provided. Ordinances not required to be published shall take effect, and be in force, from and after the passage, unless otherwise provided. The commission shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of each fiscal or municipal year, enter into a contract with a public newspaper of the city as the official paper thereof, and to continue as such until another is selected, and shall cause to be published therein all ordinances, notices, and other matters required by this Charter or by the ordinances of the city to be published. |
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