Adoption procedure; recording; effective date.
Memphis Charter, art. 40, § 354
in effectSec. 354. - Adoption procedure; recording; effective date.
No ordinances shall become effective until the same shall have passed at least three regular meetings of the Board of Commissioners, and shall have received at such meeting a majority vote of all of the members composing said board, and unless the same shall have been published in some newspaper circulated in Memphis, Tennessee, by one publication, the same to take place between the date of first and second readings of each ordinance. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the right of the Board of Commissioners to amend any ordinance at any time before final passage. After its final passage, every ordinance shall be signed by the Mayor and attested by the Comptroller and recorded in a well-bound book to be kept by the Comptroller and which shall contain only ordinances. All ordinances shall become effective immediately upon final passage, unless the ordinance itself specifies a future date at which it is to become effective, and then it shall become effective on the date named in the ordinance.
(Acts 1909, ch. 298, § 44; Priv. Acts 1923, ch. 427, § 1; Priv. Acts 1929, ch. 406, § 2; Priv. Acts 1937, ch. 123, § 18)
Source: City of Memphis, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tn/memphis/codes/charter?nodeId=PTICHRELA_ART40ORGE_S354ADPRREEFDAFetched: 10/28/2026