§ 36-4-6-16 — Ordinance, order, or resolution; power of city executive to approve or veto

(a) Within ten (10) days after an ordinance,
order, or resolution is presented to the city executive, the city executive
shall:
(1) approve the ordinance, order, or resolution, by entering the
executive's approval on it, signing it, and sending the legislative
body a message announcing the executive's approval; or
(2) veto the ordinance, order, or resolution, by returning it to the
legislative body with a message announcing the executive's veto
and stating the executive's reasons for the veto.
The executive may approve or veto separate items of an ordinance
appropriating money or levying a tax.
(b) If the executive fails to perform the executive's duty under
subsection (a), the ordinance, order, or resolution is considered vetoed.
(c) Whenever an ordinance, order, or resolution is vetoed by the
executive, it is considered defeated unless the legislative body, at its
first regular or special meeting after the ten (10) day period prescribed
by subsection (a), passes the ordinance, order, or resolution over the
executive's veto by a two-thirds (2/3) vote.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-3-6
part; 18-1-6-2 part.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.3. Amended by
P.L.127-2017, SEC.129.