No ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature or granting a franchise, creating a right or involving the expenditure of money or the levying of a tax, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property, shall be passed unless it has been fully and distinctly read on three different dates, and with respect to any such ordinance or resolution, there shall be no authority to dispense with this rule, except by a three-fourths vote of all members elected to Council taken by yeas and nays, on each resolution or ordinance, and entered in the minutes. This exception shall not apply to nonemergency ordinances or resolutions.
(Ord. 36-85. Passed 9-9-85.)