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ordinances as follows: Sec. 3.11. Procedure for passage of ordinances. (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 tern, 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 (901 days of the most recent public hearing. If final action does not occur within the ninety (901 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 three (3) several days, unless adopted as an emergency measure by the favorable vote of five ~ or more council members. (t) 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 seventy two (72j 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 fl4j 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) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, ordinances relating to the changing of a zoning district designation may be appro'/ed by the city council on one (1) reading only, if all other requirements are met. The cOtlfleil may, OO','lever, yote to reconsider any zoning district change at the ne~t regl:llar meeting after the change was approved if reconsideration is requested by a council member who was absent from the pre',ious meeting or '.'.'00 voted on the preyailing side at the previous meeting. C:\TEMP\charter commission report-200l.doc 3