Sec. 24. Ordinances or resolutions—action by mayor.
Every ordinance or resolution having the effect of an ordinance,
passed by the Council, shall be presented to the Mayor
for his approval or disapproval. If he approve the same, he
shall sign it; and such ordinance or resolution shall become operative
from the time of such approval, unless it shall be otherwise
provided in the ordinance or resolution.
If the Mayor do not approve and sign any ordinance or resolution,
and shall not return the same to the Council, with his
objections thereto, 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 the said five days. (Code,
Sec. 1033c.)
