Cross References Action of Council - see CHTR. [Sec. 18](#bkmrk-cross-references-act) Appropriation ordinance - see CHTR. [Sec. 27](#bkmrk-cross-references-act) Final passage of ordinances - see CHTR. [Sec. 35](#bkmrk-cross-references-act) Ratification of ordinances - see CHTR. [Sec. 229](#bkmrk-cross-references-act) Ordinances - see Ohio R.C. 731.17 et seq. City Codes - see ADM. [Ch. 101](#bkmrk-cross-references-act)

Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in electronic, digital, written or printed form, and shall not contain more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in a title; except that general appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are to be appropriated . The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be, "Be it ordained by the council of the city of Columbus." The enacting clause of all ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be, "Be it ordained by the people of the city of Columbus." (Ord. No. 1749-2014, 7-21-2014)

No ordinance, unless it be an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read at two regular meetings, not less than one week apart, or the requirement of such reading has been dispensed with by an affirmative vote of at least six members of council. ([Ord. No. 0650-2018](#bkmrk-no-ordinance%2C-unless), § 2, 3-5-2018)

No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be revised or amended, unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution or section revised or amended, and a repeal of the original ordinance, resolution, section or sections so amended.

All ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after thirty days from the date of their passage by the council except as otherwise provided in this charter. The council may, by a vote of seven of its members, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for an emergency in the usual daily operation of a municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. ([Ord. No. 0650-2018](#bkmrk-all-ordinances-and-r), § 2, 3-5-2018)

Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privileges, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be so passed.

Any ordinance or resolution passed by the council shall be signed by the president or other presiding officer and be presented forthwith to the mayor by the city clerk. If the mayor approves such ordinance or resolution the mayor shall sign it within ten days after its passage or adoption by the council; but if the mayor does not approve it, the mayor shall within said ten days return it, together with any objections to the city clerk, who shall transmit the same to the council at the next regular meeting thereof; which objections the council shall cause to be entered in full on its journal. The mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or part of an ordinance or resolution appropriating money. If the mayor does not sign or veto an ordinance or resolution after its passage or adoption, within the time specified, it shall take effect in the same manner as if the mayor had signed it. (Amended 11-3-98.)

When the mayor refuses to sign an ordinance or resolution, or part thereof, and returns it to the council with objections, the council shall, after the expiration of not less than one week, proceed to reconsider it and if upon reconsideration the resolution or ordinance or part or item thereof disapproved by the mayor be approved by the council, by as great a majority as required for its original passage, it shall take effect without the signature of the mayor. In all such cases the votes shall be taken by "yeas" and "nays" and entered on the journal. (Amended 11-3-98.)