Council may, with an affirmative vote of not less than four (4) members, pass an emergency ordinance to take effect immediately upon passage or at the time indicated therein in order to preserve the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare or to meet an emergency in the operating of the City government. Each emergency ordinance shall contain therein a separate section setting forth the reason for the emergency. No ordinance granting a franchise or fixing a rate to be charged by a public utility shall be passed as an emergency measure.
(Enacted 11-8-83.)