(a) Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the board of commissioners only in written or printed form. All ordinances, except ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codifying or rearranging existing ordinances or enacting a code of ordinances, shall be confined to one subject, and the subject, or subjects of all ordinances shall be clearly expressed in the title. Ordinances making appropriations. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the board of commissioners. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained by the Town of Four Oaks."
(b) When Ordinances and Resolutions Take Effect — Emergency Measures. Ordinances making the annual tax levy, appropriation ordinance, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of town affairs, resolutions requesting information from administrative officers or directing administrative action, and emergency measures shall take effect at the time indicated therein. Except as otherwise prescribed in this charter, all other ordinances and resolutions passed by the board of commissioners shall take effect at the time indicated therein, but not less than thirty (30) days from the date of their passage. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, in which the emergency claimed is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. The affirmative vote of at least four members of the board of commissioners shall be required to pass any ordinance or resolution as an emergency measure. No measure making or amending a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure. No situation shall be declared an emergency by the board of commissioners except as defined in this Section, and it is the intention of this charter that such definition shall be strictly construed by the courts.
(c) Authentication and Publication of Ordinances and Resolutions. Upon its final passage each ordinance or resolution shall be authenticated by the signature of the mayor and the town clerk and shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Within ten days after final passage, a notice setting forth in brief the substance of each ordinance shall be published or posted at least once in such manner as the board of commissioners may prescribe.