40:69A-180 - Rules of procedure; quorum; ordinances and resolutions; presiding officer; compensation - New Jersey Statutes

40:69A-180.  Rules of procedure; quorum; ordinances and resolutions; presiding officer; compensation      (a)  Council shall determine its own rules of procedure, not inconsistent  with ordinance or statute.  A majority of the whole number of members of the council shall constitute a quorum, but no ordinance shall be adopted by the council without the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the council. 

    (b)  Each ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or typewritten form and shall be read and considered as provided by general law. The vote upon every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be taken by roll call and  the yeas and nays shall be entered on the minutes. The minutes of each meeting shall be signed by the officer presiding at such meeting and by the municipal clerk. 

    (c)  The council at its organization meeting shall elect a president of the council from among the members thereof and the president shall preside at its meetings and perform such other duties as the council may prescribe.  In the absence of the president, the council shall elect a temporary presiding officer.  The compensation of the mayor, council members and department heads shall be fixed by the council immediately after its organization. 

    L.1950, c.210, s.17-31; amended 1954, c.69, s.5; 1989, c.221, s.15. 
 
40:69A-181.  Adoption and publication of ordinances;  effective date
    
(a)  Except as may otherwise be provided in this act, all ordinances shall be  adopted and published in the manner required by general law; provided, however, that any ordinance may incorporate by reference any standard technical  regulations or code, official or unofficial, which need not be so published  whenever ten copies of said regulations or code have been placed on file in the office of the municipal clerk and in the office of the body or department  charged with the enforcement of said ordinance for the examination of the  public so long as said ordinance is in effect.

    (b) No ordinance other than the local budget ordinance shall take effect less than twenty days after its final passage by council and approval by the mayor where such approval is required, unless the council shall adopt a resolution declaring an emergency and at least two-thirds of all the members of  the council vote in favor of such resolution.

     L.1950, c. 210, p. 514, s. 17-32, eff. June 8, 1950.