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<br />C. 2, § 41 ADMINISTRATION C. 2. § 46
<br />Sec. 41. Aye and no vote.
<br />On the call of any member of the council, the vote on any ques-
<br />tion may be taken by ayes and noes, and recorded, provided the
<br />demand be made before other business has been taken up. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 42. Dissent may be recorded.
<br />Any member shall have the liberty to dissent from or protest
<br />against any ordinance, resolution or order of the council and have
<br />the reason of his dissent entered upon the record. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 43. Committees -Reports -When made.
<br />Every committee shall, unless otherwise ordered, report at the
<br />next regular meeting upon the subject matter referred to it, or
<br />show good cause why such report is not made. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 44. Same -Same -Form.
<br />The reports of a committee shall be in writing, signed by at least
<br />two members, and the papers referred, as well as all written
<br />opinions in reference thereto from the city attorney shall be re-
<br />turned with the reports. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 45. Same -Meetings; chairman; quorum.
<br />The members of a committee shall meet on the call of the chair-
<br />man, who shall be the first named person on the committee. In
<br />the absence of the chairman the person named second on the com-
<br />mittee shall be recognized as chairman. A majority shall consti-
<br />tute a quorum for the transaction of business. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 46. Calendar of unfinished business.
<br />A calendar of all new, referred and deferred petitions and com-
<br />munications to the city council, shall be kept by the clerk of the
<br />council and copies shall be furnished by him to the members of the
<br />council, city attorney and city manager at least six hours prior to
<br />each meeting of the council at such time as notice is given. (Id.)
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<br />C. 2, § 50 ADMINISTRATION C. 2, § 53
<br />Sec. 50. Voting at elections.
<br />At all elections by the council the voting shall .be viva voce, and
<br />each member shall be entitled to one vote. Only one person shall
<br />be elected at a time, except with the consent of all members pres-
<br />ent. If, on any vote, no one receives a majority of all the votes,
<br />the name of the person receiving the smallest number of votes shall
<br />be dropped, and shall not again be put in nomination until a vote
<br />intervenes.
<br />At each election the roll shall be called by the clerk in alpha-
<br />betical order, and each member shall vote when his name is called,
<br />unless excused or disqualified by section 51 of this chapter. (Id.,
<br />§ 4.)
<br />Sec. 51. Members failing to vote; disqualifications.
<br />A member who is present and fails to vote when the "ayes" and
<br />"noes" are taken, shall be entered on the journal as present and
<br />not announcing his vote, but no member who has an immediate,
<br />personal or pecuniary interest in the result of the question shall
<br />either vote or be counted upon it. (Id., § 24.)
<br />Part 3. Ordinances, Resolutions, etc.'
<br />Sec. 52. Style of ordinances and resolutions.
<br />The style in which ordinances shall be enacted by the council
<br />shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the Council of the City of
<br />Charlottesville," and that in which resolutions shall be passed shall
<br />be, "Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Charlottesville."
<br />( Code 1932, § 27.)
<br />Sec. 53. Procedure in enacting general ordinances.
<br />Every general ordinance shall be read twice before its final pas-
<br />sage. The first reading shall be for information. If there is no
<br />objection, the ordinance shall be considered and voted upon. If
<br />there be objection, it shall be laid over to the next regular meeting
<br />1. For charter provision authorizing council to pass all needful or-
<br />ders, by-laws and ordinances, see char., § 15. See also char., § 13.
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<br />C. 2, § 47 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE
<br />Sec. 47. General order of business.
<br />C. 2, § 49
<br />At every regular meeting of the council the order of business
<br />shall be as follows:
<br />1. Roll call.
<br />2. Reading of minutes. The journal of the preceding meeting
<br />shall be read, and no objection being made, shall be approved and
<br />signed by the person presiding. Such ordinances as may have
<br />been adopted at the preceding meeting and copied in the ordinance
<br />book shall also be read, unless reading is dispensed with, and no
<br />objection being made, shall be approved and signed by the person
<br />presiding.
<br />3. Petitions and communications. After their purport has been
<br />briefly stated by the member offering same the council may con-
<br />sider the same, or otherwise dispose of them.
<br />4. Reports and communications from city officers, including
<br />financial statements.
<br />5. Reports of committees.
<br />6. Ordinances for second reading.
<br />7. Offering of original resolutions, orders and ordinances.
<br />8. Miscellaneous and unfinished business.
<br />The order of business shall not be departed from except by
<br />unanimous consent. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 48. Special order of business.
<br />When any matter is made the special order for a future meeting,
<br />it shall at suVh meeting take priority of all other business except
<br />the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 49. Reconsidering or rescinding vote at special
<br />meetings.
<br />No vote of a former meeting of council shall be reconsidered or
<br />rescinded at a special meeting unless there be then present as many
<br />members as were present when such vote was taken, and three-
<br />fifths of all members present vote in favor thereof. (Id., § 8.)
<br />For similar statutory provision, see § 2986 of Michie's Virginia Code
<br />of 1942.
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<br />when action on same shall be taken. Any reading may be dis-
<br />pensed with by unanimous consent. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 5 4. To be in writing.
<br />Every proposed ordinance and resolution having the effect of an
<br />ordinance shall be in writing. (Code 1932, § 16.)
<br />Sec. 55. Repealing and amending ordinances.
<br />No ordinance shall be amended or repealed except by an ordi-
<br />nance regularly introduced and adopted, provided that suspension
<br />of rules may be made by a motion. (Id., § 27.)
<br />Sec. 56. Filling blanks in certain ordinances.
<br />In filling blanks in ordinances or resolutions involving money
<br />or time, the question shall be put first upon the largest sum or
<br />longest time. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 57. Effective date.
<br />Every ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage
<br />unless otherwise provided. (Id.)
<br />Sec. 58. Appropriating money and imposing taxes, etc.
<br />Every ordinance or resolution appropriating money exceeding
<br />one hundred dollars, imposing or releasing taxes, or authorizing
<br />the borrowing of money, or creating a debt, or donating any prop-
<br />erty of the city, where the value of such property is one hundred
<br />dollars or more, a vote of a majority of all members elected to the
<br />council shall be necessary, and the "ayes" and "noes" shall be en-
<br />tered on the journal of the council.
<br />No ordinance or resolution appropriating money exceeding the
<br />sum of one thousand dollars, imposing taxes, or authorizing the
<br />borrowing of money, shall be passed by the council on the same
<br />day of its introduction, nor shall any such ordinance or resolution
<br />be valid unless at least three days intervene between its introduc-
<br />tion and passage, but this paragraph shall not apply to the annual
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