Section One. Council to act by resolution or ordinance.
The council shall act by resolution or ordinance.

Section Two. Actions requiring an ordinance.
In addition to those actions required by law or other provisions of this charter to be done by ordinance, the following acts of the council shall be done by ordinance:

(a) Adopting or amending an administrative code, or establishing, altering, or abolishing any Village department, office or agency;

(b) Providing for a fine or other penalty or establishing a rule or regulation for violation of which a fine or other penalty is imposed;

(c) Levying taxes, except as otherwise provided herein;

(d) Granting, renewing, or extending a franchise;

(e) Regulating the rate charged by a public utility for its services;

(f) Authorizing the borrowing of money;

(g) Conveying or leasing, or authorizing the conveyance or leasing, of any lands of the Village.

(h) Adopting, with or without amendment, ordinances proposed under the initiative power; and

(i) Amending or repealing any ordinance previously adopted, except as otherwise provided herein.

(j) Exercising the powers of eminent domain and annexation within the Tulalip Indian Reservation.

Acts other than those referred to in this section may be done either by ordinance or resolution.

Section Three. Ayes and nays to be recorded.
The ayes and nays shall be taken on the passage of all ordinances and resolutions and entered in the journal of council proceedings.

Section Four. When majority vote required.
A majority vote of all the members of the council shall be necessary to pass any ordinance or resolution having the effect of an ordinance.

Section Five. Enacting style.
The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be in these words: [”Be it ordained by the council of the Consolidated Borough of Quil Ceda Village as follows:”].

Section Six. Reading or posting and passage of ordinances and resolutions; effective date.
All proposed ordinances and resolutions having the effect of ordinances shall either be read in full or posted in a public place at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to their adoption. If any amendments are proposed to a posted ordinance, such amendments shall be read in full prior to adoption of the ordinance.
A measure may be placed upon final passage at the same meeting as when introduced, by unanimous consent of the council.

Measures without an emergency clause shall take effect and become operative thirty (30) days after the date of their passage.

Section Seven. Emergency measures; effective date.
An emergency measure is one necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, in which the emergency is set forth and defined. An emergency measure may be placed upon its second reading and final passage at the same meeting as when first introduced, on the affirmative vote of all members of the council.
An emergency measure shall take effect immediately on its passage.

Section Eight. Signing of ordinances and resolutions.
All ordinances and resolutions shall be signed by the president and attested to by the Village clerk.

Section Nine. Publication of ordinances and resolutions.
All ordinances and resolutions having the effect of ordinances, except emergency measures, shall be published once in the official public media of the Village within twenty (20) days of their passage before they become effective and operative.
Emergency ordinances that have been passed by the necessary unanimous vote of the council shall be published one time in the official media of the Village within Fourteen (14) days after their passage.

Section Ten. Revision of ordinances and resolutions.
Ordinances or resolutions having the effect of ordinances shall not be revised, reenacted, or amended by reference to title only, but such ordinances or resolutions to be revised or reenacted, or the section or sections thereof to be amended, or the new section or sections to be added thereto, shall be set forth and adopted in the method provide herein for the adoption of ordinances and resolutions.

Section Eleven. Repealing or suspending ordinances or resolutions.
No ordinance, or resolution having the effect of an ordinance, or section thereof shall be repealed or suspended except by ordinance or resolution adopted in the manner provided herein.

Section Twelve. Filing, recording, and certification of ordinances and resolutions.
All ordinances and resolutions shall be filed and safely kept by the Village clerk and duly recorded and certified by the Village clerk in books kept for the purpose. Recorded copies thereof certified by the Village clerk or the originals thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the contents of such ordinances or resolutions and of the due passage and publication of the same, and shall be admissible in evidence in any court or in any proceeding where the contents of such ordinances or resolutions are in question. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the proof of passage and publication of any ordinance or resolution in the manner otherwise prescribed by law.

Section Thirteen. Adoption by reference.
The council may enact the provisions of a code or public record theretofore in existence without setting forth such provisions, but the adopting such code or public record by reference; provided, such ordinance shall be published in full. At least three (3) copies of the code or public record shall be filed in the office of the Village clerk and kept available for public use and inspection. A code or public record enacted by reference may be amended in the same manner.
No penalty clause shall be enacted by reference thereto. A penalty clause contained in a code or public record adopted by reference shall be set forth in full in the adopting reference.

Section Fourteen. Codification of ordinances.
Any or all ordinances of the Village that have been enacted and published in the manner required at the time of their adoption, and that have not been repealed, shall be compiled, consolidated, revised, indexed, and arranged as a comprehensive code, and such code may be adopted by reference, with the same effect as an ordinance, by the passage of any ordinance for such purpose. Such code need not be published in the manner required for other ordinances, but not less than two (2) copies thereof shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the Village clerk prior to the adoption thereof. Ordinances codified shall be repealed as of the effective date of the code. Amendments to the code shall be enacted in the same manner as ordinances.

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