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SEC. 11. FORM OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION. <br />All legislative action by Council shall be by ordinance or resolution <br />introduced in written or printed form. An affirmative vote of at least <br />a majority of the members of Council eligible to vote shall be <br />required for the passage or enactment of every ordinance or <br />resolution. Every ordinance or resolution shall be read at three <br />different Council meetings, provided that this requirement may be <br />dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of the members of Council <br />eligible to vote if a written or printed copy of the ordinance or <br />resolution shall have been furnished to each member of Council prior <br />to its introduction. Ordinances and resolutions shall be deemed to <br />have been read if the title thereof is fully read, provided that at the <br />request of at least two members of Council such ordinance or <br />resolution shall be read in full. <br />No ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one subject <br />matter, which subject shall be clearly expressed in its title, and no <br />ordinance or resolution shall be revised or amended unless the <br />ordinance or resolution superseding it contains the entire ordinance or <br />resolution so revised or amended or the section or sections so revised <br />or amended, and having been revised or amended the original <br />ordinance, resolution, section or sections thereof, shall be expressly <br />repealed. <br />All ordinances, resolutions, statements, orders, proclamations and <br />reports required by law or by this Charter or by ordinance to be <br />published or posted shall be posted in only one place, namely the City <br />Hall, and for a period of not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the <br />effective date thereof. An emergency ordinance or resolution shall <br />also be so published or posted as aforesaid, but said requirement for <br />posting or publishing shall not postpone the effective date thereof as <br />provided in this Charter. <br />BE AMENDED, AND, AS AMENDED, SHALL READ AS FOLLOWS: <br />SEC. 11. FORM OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION. <br />All legislative action by Council shall be by ordinance or resolution <br />introduced in written or printed form. An affirmative vote of at least <br />a majority of the members of Council eligible to vote shall be <br />required for the passage or enactment of every ordinance or <br />resolution. Every ordinance or resolution shall be read at three <br />2 <br />