Be it further enacted, that every ordinance shall be read three (3) different days in open session before its adoption.
An ordinance shall not take effect until fifteen (15) days after the first passage thereof, except in case of an emergency ordinance. An emergency ordinance may become effective upon the day of its final passage.
The unanimous vote of all members of the council present shall be required to pass an emergency ordinance.
No ordinance making a grant, renewal, or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency ordinance. No ordinance shall be amended except by a new ordinance. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)