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record shall be publicly available. <br />(b) No resolution of a permanent character or ordinance shall come to a <br />vote until it has been read, by title, on three separate days. The <br />requirement of reading on three separate days may be dispensed with by a <br />two- thirds vote of all councilmembers. A majority of councilmembers <br />present may require that an ordinance be read in full rather than by title. <br />No ordinance, resolution or section of an ordinance or resolution shall be <br />revised or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the <br />entire ordinance or resolution or section to be revised or amended, and the <br />ordinance, resolution or section revised or amended is repealed. <br />(c) No ordinance or resolution shall under any circumstances be adopted <br />or passed unless it has been read on three separate days, which (i) changes <br />the amount of salary or compensation for any elected officer of the city; (2) <br />amends any zoning ordinance; (3) grants, renews or extends a franchise or <br />other special privilege; or (4) regulates the rate to be charged by a public <br />utility for its services. <br />(d) The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by council shall be "Be it <br />ordained by the -city of Lakewood." The enacting clause of all ordinances <br />submitted by initiative shall be "Be it ordained by the people of the city of <br />Lakewood_" <br />2.9 MAYOR'S APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF LEGISLATION <br />(a) Any ordinance or resolution passed by council shall be signed by the <br />presiding officer and presented to the mayor by the clerk of council. If the <br />mayor approves the ordinance or resolution, the mayor shall sign it within <br />ro days after its passage or adoption. <br />(b) If the mayor does not approve an ordinance or resolution, the mayor <br />shall return it to council with a statement of his or her objections to the <br />measure within io days, or if council is not then in session, at the next <br />regular meeting of council, which objections council shall enter into its <br />minutes. The mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or <br />part of any ordinance or resolution appropriating money, but otherwise <br />the approval or disapproval shall be addressed to the entire ordinance or <br />resolution. Not later than at the next regular meeting, council shall <br />reconsider the legislation and, if upon reconsideration the legislation or <br />the part of the legislation disapproved by the mayor is approved by a vote <br />of two thirds of all members of council, it shall then take effect as if it had <br />M <br />