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2.01 1 2.0. MINUTES (continued). Subdivision 2. General Contents of Minutes. The Clerk - Administrator shall record all material matters considered by the Council in the minutes. Ordinances, resolutions, communications, and claims considered by the Council need not he rernrded in inii in the minutes if they appear in other permanent rernrds of the Clerk -Administrator and can he accurately identified from the description given in the minutes. The Council may in its discretion direct that any one of the above be fully set out in the minutes. 2.06. ORDINANCES AND RF.SOLUTrONS. Subdivision 1. Preparation and Introduction, All legislation of the Muniripality shall be by ordinance. Ordinances, resolutions, and other matters requiring Council action shall be prepared at the direction of the Council, provided, however, that the Clerk -Administrator or Attorney may present Ordinances, resolutions and other matters for consideration. Subdivision 2. Enactment of Ordinances and Amendments. ' Every Ordinance and amendment of an Ordinance shall be enacted by a majority vote of all ^f the members of CLe Council except where a larger number is required by law. It shall be signed by the Mayor or in his absence by the Acting Mayor, attested by the Clerk -Administrator and published once in the legal newspaper. Proof of the publication shall be attached to and filed with the Ordinance book withir. 30 days after its publication. All Ordinances shall be suitably entitled to clearly express its sub,ect. Subdivision 3. Emergency Ordinances_ An emergency ordinance is an oroinar,ce necessary for the immeaiatf: preserva- tion of the public peace, health, morals, safety or welfare, in .rich ordinance the emergency is defines'. and declared .n 0., preamble tnereto. An emergency ordinance must be approve(: by a majority of available members of the City Council. An emergency ordinance must be in writing but may be enacted without previors filing or voting, and may be adopted finally at the meeting at which it is the first introduced and voted upon by the Council. An emergency ordinance shall remain in effect for the duration of the emergency. No prosecution shall be based upon the provisions of an emergency ordinance until 21 hours after the ordinance has been adopted, filed with the Clerk -Administrator, and has either been posted in three (3) conspicuous places in the City, or published as provided for by the Home Rule Charter, or the person charged with violation thereof had actual notice of the ordinance prior to the act or omission resulting in the prosecution.