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 Part 1. RENO CITY CHARTER
 Article II. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

  § 2.100. Ordinances: Enactment procedure; emergency ordinances.  

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  • 1.

    All proposed ordinances when first proposed must be read to the City Council by title, after which an adequate number of copies of the proposed ordinance must be filed with the City Clerk for public distribution. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, notice of the filing must be published once in a newspaper qualified pursuant to the provisions of chapter 238 of NRS, and published in the City at least 10 days before the adoption of the ordinance. The City Council shall adopt or reject the ordinance, or an amendment thereto, within 45 days after the date of publication.

    2.

    At the next regular meeting or adjourned regular meeting of the City Council held at least 10 days after the date of publication, the proposed ordinance must be returned to the City Council for consideration and possible adoption. At that meeting, the title of the proposed ordinance must be read as first proposed or as amended, and thereupon the proposed ordinance must be finally voted upon or action thereon postponed.

    3.

    In cases of emergency or where the ordinance is of a kind specified in section 7.030, by unanimous consent of the City Council, final action may be taken immediately or at an emergency meeting called for that purpose, and no notice of the filing of the copies of the proposed ordinance with the City Clerk need be published.

    4.

    All ordinances must be signed by the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk and published by title, together with the names of the members of the City Council voting for or against passage, in a newspaper qualified pursuant to the provisions of chapter 238 of NRS, and published in the City for at least one publication, before the ordinance becomes effective. The City Council may, by majority vote, order the publication of the ordinance in full in lieu of publication by title only.

    5.

    The City Clerk shall record all ordinances in a book kept for that purpose, together with the affidavits of publication by the publisher.

(Ch. 662, Stats. 1971 p. 1967; A—Ch. 160, Stats. 1983 p. 372; Ch. 599, Stats. 1993 p. 2500; Ch. 327, Stats. 1999 p. 1366; Ch. 349, Stats. 2013 p. 1822)