No ordinance of a general or permanent nature, or granting a franchise, 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 until it has been read at two (2) regular meetings, or the requirements for such reading have been dispensed with by a vote of at least five (5) members of Council. This provision, however, shall not apply to an emergency measure. Where there is a series of ordinances and resolutions required to provide for any public improvement including the raising of money therefor, the above rule shall apply only to the first ordinance or resolution in the series, and all subsequent ordinances and resolutions required in such series, may be passed on their first reading by the concurrence of four (4) members of Council.
(Ord. 2400. Passed 1-3-22.)