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Sec. 3.10. Rules of procedure. The city council shall determine by ordinance its own rules of procedure and order of business. Four (4j or more council members shall constitute a quorum, but no action of the council shall be of any force or effect unless it is adopted by the favorable votes of four (4j or more of the council members. Minutes of all meetings of the council, including the vote of "ayes" and "noes" upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, shall be taken and recorded, and such minutes shall constitute a permanent record to which any citizen may have access at all reasonable times. 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 clerk 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 R1 council members and shall be filed with and recorded by the city clerk. (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 clerk 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 three ~ several days, unless adopted as an emergency measure by the favorable vote of five f5) 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 clerk at least seventy t\VO 021 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 f-l-G-} days after the date of its [mal 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 approved by the city council on one EB reading only, if all other requirements are met. The council may, however, vote to reconsider any zoning district change at the next regular meeting after the change was approved if reconsideration is requested by a council member who was absent from the previous meeting or who voted on the prevailing side at the previous meeting. -2-