2.04.200 Ordinance form and procedure.
A. All actions of the council set out in AS 29.25.010 shall be by ordinance.
B. Each ordinance must have a descriptive title, a serial number assigned by the clerk, and an enacting clause reading: “BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BETHEL, ALASKA.”
C. An ordinance may be introduced by a councilmember, or committee of the council, or by the city manager. The ordinance, as approved or amended by the council for introduction, shall be set for a public hearing by the council and acted upon as follows:
1. A summary of the ordinance shall be published, together with notice of the time and place for the public hearing at least five (5) days prior to the hearing. If publication is by posting, publication does not occur until the notice has been posted for five (5) days in at least three (3) public places.
2. At the public hearing, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be available to all persons present or the ordinance shall be read in full.
3. After hearing all interested parties wishing to be heard, the council shall consider the proposed ordinance and may adopt it with or without amendment. A new hearing is not required when an ordinance is amended unless the amendment has the effect of changing the basic character of the ordinance as described in the summary in the notice of the hearing.
D. An ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption unless a different effective date or time is set out in the ordinance.
E. The mayor or the councilmember who presided over the meeting when the ordinance was adopted shall sign the ordinance and the clerk shall insert the date of adoption, sign the ordinance and affix the seal of the city to each adopted ordinance. [Ord. 21-61 § 2, 2022; Ord. 97-29 § 2. Formerly 2.04.160.]