Burbank Municipal Code Art. 5 Council Actions and Enactments

The Council may take official action only by the passage or adoption of ordinances, resolutions or motions, as may be prescribed by the Constitution or Laws of the State of California, and the provisions of this Charter; provided that any action of the Council fixing or prescribing a fine, punishment or penalty, or granting any franchise, shall be taken by ordinance. In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the California Constitution, Laws or Charter, the Council may choose any of the above three methods of taking such action. All proposed ordinances introduced in the Council shall be in printed form. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall read as follows: “The Council of the City of Burbank does ordain as follows:”

The affirmative vote of not less than three (3) members of the Council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinances, resolutions or approve or reject claims against the City, which vote shall be taken by ayes and noes and entered upon the minutes of the Council.

Except as provided in this Charter no ordinance shall be passed by the Council on the day of its introduction, nor within five (5) days thereafter. Every ordinance shall be read in full only when requested by a majority of the Council. A proposed ordinance may be amended or modified between the time of its introduction and the time of its final passage, providing its general scope and original purpose are retained. All ordinances shall be signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, and the City Attorney’s synopsis of such ordinances shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within fourteen (14) days of adoption, and shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. on the 31st day from and after the date of the adoption, and in computing such time the day of adoption shall be excluded; provided, however, that an ordinance calling or otherwise relating to an election, or ordinances otherwise specially required by the laws of the State, or ordinances declared by the Council to be necessary as an emergency measure for preserving the public peace, health, safety or welfare or as mandated by a state or federal law, regulation, or permit condition, and containing the reasons for its urgency and passed by not less than four (4) members of the Council, or ordinances relating to bond issues, may be introduced and passed at one and the same meeting, and shall become effective immediately, if the Council shall in such ordinance so provide and shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within fourteen (14) days following adoption. However, no measure creating or abolishing any office or changing the salaries, terms or duties of any office or creating any franchise or special privilege or creating any vested right or interest shall be construed to be an emergency or urgency measure. (Previous Section 8; amended and renumbered by Charter Amendment approved by the voters on April 10, 2007.)

The duly adopted and effective ordinances of the City, when compiled, arranged and codified or recodified, may be adopted by reference by passage of an ordinance for such purpose. Detailed regulations not embodied in any ordinance, such as fire, building, plumbing, electrical, and heating and cooling codes, as well as codes on other subjects, may be enacted in the same manner. Amendments to such codes shall be adopted by the same procedures as amendments to ordinances generally. Copies of all codes adopted by reference, that are not commercially available for sale, shall be made available to the public at a reasonable price. (Previous Section 8A; renumbered by Charter Amendment approved by the voters on April 10, 2007.)