§ 2. Procedure.  


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  • The Mayor or any three [(3)] Councilmen may call special meetings of the City Council at any time deemed advisable, after due notice to all members, including the Mayor. The Council shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a journal of its proceedings in a permanent bound book, and any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records thereof at all reasonable times. The Mayor Pro Tem and any three (3) members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the affirmative vote of three [(3)] members of the Council shall be sufficient and necessary to adopt or repeal any ordinance or resolution. All members of the City Council present at a meeting shall vote upon every question, ordinance or resolution either "yea" or "nay" which shall be entered on said journal. Any councilman refusing to vote shall be entered on the journal and counted as voting in the affirmative. Every ordinance or resolution passed by the City Council shall be signed by the Mayor or in his absence by the Mayor Pro Tem, and such ordinance or resolution shall be attested by the person acting as City Secretary, and the seal of the City impressed thereon within ten (10) days after its passage, but such ordinance or resolution shall not be invalidated merely because the signature of either of such officers shall be lacking or the failure to impress the City seal on the same.