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(3) Council may combine the duties of said commission with the duties of the planning commission, as provided in section 2.09 e through j, to form a planning and zoning commission. (b) Zoning board of adjustment. (1) The zoning board of adjustment may, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, make special exceptions to the terms of a zoning ordinance in harmony with its general purpose and intent and in accordance with general or specific rules therein contained. (2) Board members shall receive such compensation as council may deem appropriate. 3. Generally. All of the powers granted by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.001 et seq., inclusive, relating to zoning in cities, are hereby adopted and made a part of this Charter. d. Housing authority. Council may create a housing authority of such number, terms and compensation of members as council may determine and may delegate to the housing authority such powers relating to the planning, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance or operation of housing projects and housing accommodations as council. may determine. Section 13. That pursuant to the Charter Amendment Election, Proposition Seventeen, Section 2.11 of the La Porte Charter is amended to read as follows: 2.11. - Ordinances. a. Passage. I. Procedure. Every ordinance shall be introduced in written or printed form, and, upon passage, shall take effect at the time indicated therein; provided that any ordinance imposing a penalty, fine or forfeiture for a violation of its provisions shall become effective not less than ten (10) days from the date of its passage. The city secretary shall give notice of the passage of every ordinance imposing a penalty, fine or forfeiture for a violation of the provisions thereof, by causing the caption or title, including the penalty, of any such ordinance to be published in the official newspaper in the city at least once within ten (10) days of its passage according to the provisions of state law. He shall note on every ordinance, the caption of which is hereby required to be published, and on the record thereof, the fact that same has been published as required by the Charter, and the date of such publication and promulgation of such ordinance; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the correction, amendment, revision and modification of the ordinances of the city for publication in book or pamphlet form. Except as otherwise provided in Article VII of this Charter, it shall not be necessary to the validity of any ordinance that it shall be read more than one time or considered at more than one session of city council. Every ordinance shall be authenticated by the signature of the mayor and city secretary and shall be systematically recorded in an ordinance book in a manner approved by council. It shall only be necessary to record the caption or title of ordinances in the official minutes of council meetings. 2. Codifications. Council shall have power to cause the ordinances of the city to be corrected, amended, revised, codified and printed in code form as often as council deems advisable. Such printed code, when adopted by council, shall be in full force and effect without the necessity of publishing the same or any part thereof in a newspaper and shall be admitted in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. b. Additional ordinances. In addition to such acts of council as are required by statute or by this Charter to be by ordinance, every act of council establishing a fine or other penalty or providing for the expenditure of funds or for the contracting of indebtedness shall be by ordinance. C. Enacting clause. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be 'BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE." 16