Sec. 1033c. Veto power of mayor of city: when ordinance
may become operative, notwithstanding his objection;
vote to be entered on journal; no ordinance,
et cetera, appropriating over one hundred
dollars in money or authorizing the borrowing of
money to be passed, except by recorded affirmative
vote of a majority of all members.
Every ordinance, or resolution having the effect of an ordinance,
passed by the council of a city, shall, before it becomes
operative, be presented to the mayor of such city. If he approve
he shall sign it, but if not, if the council consists of two
branches, he may return it, with his objections in writing, to
the clerk, or other recording officer, of that branch in which it
originated; which branch shall enter the objections at length on
its journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such consideration,
two-thirds of all the members elected thereto shall agree
to pass the ordinance or resolution, it shall be sent, together
with the objections, to the other branch, by which it shall likewise
be considered, and if approved by two-thirds of all the
members elected thereto, it shall become operative, notwithstanding
the objections of the mayor. But in all such cases the
votes of both branches of the council shall be determined by
yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and
against the ordinance or resolution shall be entered on the journal
of each branch. * * * If any ordinance or resolution
shall not be returned by the mayor within five days (Sundays
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall become
operative in like manner as if he had signed it, unless
his term of office, or that of the council, shall expire within said
five days.
The mayor of a city shall have the power to veto any particular
item or items of an appropriation ordinance or resolution;
but the veto shall not affect any item or items to which he does
not object. The item or items objected to shall not take effect,
except in the manner provided in this section as to ordinances
or resolutions not approved by the mayor. No ordinance or resolution
appropriating money exceeding the sum of one hundred
dollars, imposing taxes, or authorizing the borrowing of
money, shall be passed, except by a recorded affirmative vote
of a majority of all the members elected to the council or to
each branch thereof, where there are two; and in case of the
veto by the mayor of such ordinance or resolution, it shall require
a recorded affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected to the council, or to each branch thereof, where
there are two, to pass the same over such veto in the manner
provided in this section. Nothing contained in this section shall
operate to repeal or amend any provision in any existing city
charter requiring a two-thirds vote for the passage of any ordinance
as to the appropriation of money, imposing taxes, or
authorizing the borrowing of money.
