(a) Within ten (10) days after an ordinance, order, or resolution is presented to the city executive, the city executive shall:

1. (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. (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.

(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.