§ 5. Approval or veto of legislation.

(a) Delivery to Mayor; Approval.

All ordinances or resolutions duly passed by the City Council, after being properly certified by the President of the City Council as having been so passed, shall be delivered by the Clerk of the Council to the Mayor for approval. The date of delivery shall be noted on the ordinances or resolutions and, when approved by the Mayor, they shall become ordinances or resolutions of the City.

(b) Veto; Return to Council.

(1) If the Mayor does not approve of an ordinance or resolution passed by the City Council, the Mayor shall return it with written objections to the City Council within three actual regular meetings, not more than one of which shall occur in any one calendar week, of the City Council after the delivery of the ordinance or resolution to the Mayor.

(2) On receipt, the Mayor's objections shall be read promptly to the Council and entered on its Journal. The Council may proceed to reconsider and vote on the ordinance or resolution:

(i) after 5 calendar days from when the Mayor's objections have been read to the Council; and

(ii) either:

(A) within 20 calendar days from when the Mayor's objections have been read to the Council; or

(B) if no regular meeting is held during that 20-day period, at the first regular meeting that is scheduled after that 20-day period.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of this subsection, no vetoed ordinance or resolution may be reconsidered by a City Council that has been newly-elected and sworn since the passage of the vetoed ordinance or resolution.

(4) If the ordinance or resolution, after reconsideration, is again passed by the City Council by a vote of two-thirds of its members, it becomes an ordinance or resolution of the City. In these cases, after the reconsideration, the votes on the question of the passage of the ordinance or resolution over the veto of the Mayor shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against passage of the ordinance or resolution over the veto of the Mayor shall be entered on the Journal of the City Council.

If an ordinance or resolution duly passed by the City Council shall not be returned by the Mayor to the City Council within three actual regular meetings, no more than one of which shall occur in any one calendar week, after it shall have been delivered to the Mayor, it shall become an ordinance or resolution of the City in the same manner as if the Mayor had approved it, unless the City Council by an adjournment sine die, or for a period exceeding one month, shall prevent its return, in which case it shall not be law.

(d) Items of appropriation.

If an ordinance or resolution duly passed by the City Council shall embrace different items of appropriation, the Mayor may approve the provisions thereof relating to one or more items of appropriation and disapprove the others, and in such case those the Mayor shall approve shall become effective and those which the Mayor shall not approve shall be reconsidered by the City Council, and shall become effective if again passed over the veto of the Mayor by the vote as above prescribed for the passage over the veto of the Mayor of entire ordinances or resolutions. The procedures governing the Mayor's veto of an item of appropriation and the Council's reconsideration of that item shall be the same as those in this section that govern the passage, veto, reconsideration and override of ordinances and resolutions.