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Mayor Billy G. Moore and City Council Members Page 7 January 11, 1999 (a) The council shall legislate by ordinance, and the enacting clause of every ordinance shall be: "Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of San Marcos". (b) The city attorney shall approve the legality of all ordinances adopted by the council, or shall file with the city secretary written legal objections thereto. Evidence of approval by the city attorney may be by notation on the ordinance itself, or by separate instrument. (c) Every ordinance enacted by the council shall be signed by the mayor, the mayor pro tem, or two () council members and shall be filed with and recorded by the city secretary. (d) All proposed ordinances requiring a public hearing or hearings shall be finally acted upon by the city council within ninety (90) days of the most recent public hearing. If final action does not occur within the ninety (90) day period following the public hearing, then another public hearing shall be held before final action on the ordinance. Unless notice requirements are provided by other law, the city secretary shall publish a notice of each public hearing by the city council on an ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the city before the public hearing. (e) All ordinances shall be presented to council and acted on in open meeting on two separate tbn-A- f3j-se al days, unless adopted as an emergency measure by the favorable vote of five (5) or more council members. (f) At the time of the first presentation each ordinance shall be read aloud unless it is publicly posted, available at a readily accessible location and filed with the city secretary at least sew=tom (72) hours prior to the meeting at which it is to be considered, in which event only the caption need be read aloud. (g) Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Charter, no ordinance shall become effective until ten " days after the date of its final passage, unless it relates to the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, is adopted as an emergency measure, and contains a statement of the nature of the emergency. In such event, the emergency ordinance shall become effective upon publication of notice of the ordinance in accordance with this article. (h) Notwithstmiding miy of the foregoing, ordinmices refating to t he changing of a zoning district designation may be approved by the city comicil on one (t ) reading On ,. ail other requirements are met. The comicif may, however, vote to recon di i h h i + sider any, z stT ct c ange at t e next regutar =ct ng after e change was approved i i d b il b h f f reconsideratio s requeste y a counc mem er w o was absent rom the previotts ineet ing or who vot