NRS266.115. Enactment of ordinance: Style; introduction and notice; final action; publication.

      1.  The style of ordinances must be as follows: “The City Council of the City of ......................... do ordain.” All proposed ordinances, when first proposed, must be read by title to the city council and may be referred to a committee of any number of the members of the council for consideration, after which an adequate number of copies of the ordinance must be deposited with the city clerk for public examination and distribution upon request. Notice of the deposit of the copies, together with an adequate summary of the ordinance, must be published once in a newspaper published in the city, if any, otherwise in some newspaper published in the county which has a general circulation in the city, at least 10 days before the adoption of the ordinance. At any meeting at which final action on the ordinance is considered, at least one copy of the ordinance must be available for public examination. The city council shall adopt or reject the ordinance, or the ordinance as amended, within 30 days after the date of publication, except that in cases of emergency, by unanimous consent of the whole council, final action may be taken immediately or at a special meeting called for that purpose.

      2.  At the next regular or adjourned meeting of the council following the proposal of an ordinance and its reference to committee, the committee shall report the ordinance back to the council, and thereafter it must be read by title and summary or in full as first introduced, or if amended, as amended, and thereupon the proposed ordinance must be finally voted upon or action on it postponed.

      3.  After final adoption the ordinance must be signed by the mayor, and, together with the votes cast on it, must be:

      (a) Published by title, together with an adequate summary including any amendments, once in a newspaper published in the city, if any, otherwise in a newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city; and

      (b) Posted in full in the city hall.

Ê The ordinance must go into effect 20 days after its publication, except emergency ordinances which may be effective immediately.

      [27:125:1907; A 1955, 422]—(NRS A 1967, 382; 1971, 298; 1979, 89; 1983, 364; 1987, 1050)