All ordinances and resolutions passed by the Council shall be in effect on and after the thirtieth day from the date of their passage except that the Council may, by the vote of four members, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein, subject to the veto power of the Mayor.
An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution providing for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures. No measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a lease for one or more years or franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
(Adopted 5-7-85)