The legislative powers of the Municipality, except as otherwise provided by this Charter or by the Constitution of the State of Ohio, shall be vested in the Council.
(a) The Council shall by ordinance make provision for:
(1) The time and place of regular meetings of the Council;
(2) The method of calling special meetings of the Council;
(3) The method of giving public notice of the enactment of its ordinances and resolutions and of any other of its acts or proceedings which it deems proper to publish.
(b) The Council may by ordinance make provision for:
(1) The form and method of enactment of its ordinances and resolutions, provided that no ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and provided further that no ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature, granting a franchise, creating a right, involving the expenditure of money or the levying of a tax (other than a resolution providing for an election on the question of issuing bonds or levying a tax) or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property shall be passed unless it has been read (in full or by title) on three different days, unless the requirement for such reading be dispensed with by the affirmative vote of five members of Council;
(2) The procedure for making public improvements and levying assessments, including the procedure for combining two or more public improvements and the levying of assessments therefor in one proceeding, if the Council finds that it will be economical and practical to undertake such improvements jointly, and provided that, in the event the improvements and levying of assessments provide for the completion of the water utility service throughout substantially all of the Village, not heretofore so serviced, that such water improvements and assessments be provided for in a Master Plan which shall be passed by Council.
(3) The procedure for the awarding of contracts, including contracts for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of real or personal property.
(4) Such other general regulations as the Council may deem necessary.
(Amended May 2, 1995.)