A.    Committee. The city attorney shall be ex-officio chairman of the ordinance committee. It shall be the duty of the committee to prepare such ordinances as may be required by the city council.

    B.    Passage by Yeas and Nays--Record. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances, and on all propositions to create any liability against the city, or for the expenditure or appropriation of its money and all other cases at the request of any member and entered on the journal of its proceeding and the concurrence of a majority of all the members elected in the city council shall be necessary for the passage of any such ordinance or proposition; provided it shall require three-fourths of the aldermen to sell any city property.

    C.    Approval and Veto. All ordinances passed by the city council shall, before they take effect, be deposited in the office of the city clerk, and if the mayor approves thereof, he shall sign the same, and such as he shall not approve, he shall return to the city council with his objections thereto, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the city council occurring no less than five days after the passage thereof. Such veto may extend to any one or more items or appropriations contained in any ordinance making an appropriation, or to the entire ordinance; and in case the vote only extends to a part of such ordinance, the residue thereof shall take effect and be in force. But, in case the mayor shall fail to return any ordinance with his objections thereto by the time aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have approved such ordinance, and the same shall take effect accordingly.

(Prior code § 2-3-1)