Section 200. GENERAL POWERS.

The City shall have the power to make and enforce all laws and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to such restrictions and limitations as may be provided in this Charter or in the Constitution of the State of California.

It shall also have the power to exercise any and all rights, powers and privileges heretofore or hereafter established, granted or prescribed by any law of the State, by this Charter, or by other lawful authority, or which a municipal corporation might or could exercise under the Constitution of the State of California, subject to such restrictions and limitations as may be contained in this Charter.

The enumeration in this Charter of any particular power shall not be held to be exclusive of, or any limitation upon, the generality of the foregoing provisions.

Section 201. PROCEDURES.

The City shall have the power to and may act pursuant to any procedure established by any law of the State, unless a different procedure is required by this Charter.

Section 203. CONTINUANCE OF ALL LAWS.

All lawful ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations or portions thereof now in force and not in conflict or inconsistent herewith are continued in force until they have been duly repealed, amended, changed, or superseded by proper authority.

Section 204. FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

The government provided by this Charter shall be known as the Mayor-Council form of government.

SECTION 500. POWERS VESTED IN THE COUNCIL.

All powers herein granted to an vested in the City of Fresno shall, except as herein granted to and vested in the City of Fresno shall, except as otherwise provided, be exercised by a Council o be designated the Council of the City of Fresno. Said Council shall be the governing body of the City and, subject to the express limitations of this Charter, shall be vested with all powers of legislation in municipal affairs adequate to a complete system of local government consistent the Constitution of the State...

SECTION 600. ENACTMENT OF ORDINANCES.

Legislative action, including the establishment of a...franchise shall be taken by the Council only by means of an ordinance...

SECTION 601. VOTE REQUIRED.

Not ordiance shall be passed or become effective without receiving the affirmative vote of at least four members of the Council unless otherwise provided by the Charter.

SECTION 605. VETO OF CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS.

(a)The Mayor shall have veto power over all legislative acts of the Council, whether such action be taken by ordinance, resolution, or otherwise. The Mayor's veto power shall not extend to administrative decisions or quasi-judicial decisions of Council.

The veto power shall be afforded the Mayor irrespective of any super-majority vote by Council, except that the veto power shall not be extended to override votes taken pursuant to Section 609 of this Charter...The Mayor shall either approve each ordinance, resolution or other action adopted by the council, subject to the power of the Mayor's veto, adopted by the council, by signing and returning same to the City Clerk within the required time limit. Failure to make such return within the required time limit shall constitute approval and such ordinance, resolution or action shall take effect without the Mator's signed approval...

SECTION 609. ENACTMENT OVER VETO.

The Council may reconsider any ordinance, or other action subject to the Mayor's veto, which has been vetoed by the Mayor, and if, after such reconsideration, five members of the Council shall vote in favor of passage thereof, it shall become effective notwithstanding the Mayor's veto....Ff such vetoed ordinance, resolution, or other action is not passed over the Mayor's veto within thirty days of such veto, the resolution, ordinance, or other action shall be deemed disapproved.