Each ordinance or resolution providing for:
(a) The appropriation of money;
(b) An annual tax levy;
(c) Improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the foot frontage of the property benefited and to be specially assessed therefor; and
(d) Any emergency ordinance or resolution necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety,
shall take effect, unless a later time be specified therein, upon its signature by the Mayor approving the same, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be vetoed by the Mayor, or upon its passage after it has been vetoed by the Mayor, as the case may be. All other ordinances and resolutions shall take effect and be operative in the manner provided by the general laws of the State of Ohio.
Each emergency measure shall contain a statement of the necessity for such emergency action and shall require the affirmative vote of five members of Council for its enactment. No ordinance or resolution relating to any change in the boundaries of the Municipality, providing for the surrender or joint exercise of any of its powers, enacting, amending or repealing any zoning ordinance, or granting any franchise, shall be enacted as an emergency measure.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Charter to the contrary, in the event Council shall pass or has heretofore passed an ordinance or resolution as a water service Master Plan as herein provided in Article III, Section 8(b)(2), such ordinance or resolution shall not become effective until Council submits such water service Master Plan ordinance or resolution to the electorate at the next regular Municipal or general election, if one shall occur not less than sixty days nor more than one hundred twenty days after passage of the measure, or at a special election within the time aforesaid, and such ordinance or resolution is approved by a majority of the electorate voting thereon. In the event a majority of the electorate voting thereon shall approve such water service Master Plan ordinance or resolution, no subsequent ordinances or resolutions relating to the completion of the improvements referred to within such Master Plan shall be submitted for approval of the electorate. In the event Council has passed an ordinance or resolution as a water service Master Plan prior to the May 2, 1995, election, and Council shall have caused the Clerk to have delivered by regular mail a summary of such Master Plan to each elector of Gates Mills whose name appears on the poll or registration books at the last preceding general Municipal election no less than thirty days prior to the May 2, 1995, election, and if the within Charter Amendment shall have been approved by a majority of the electorate voting thereon at such election, such approval shall be deemed to be an approval by the electorate of such Master Plan as required by this section.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Charter to the contrary, in the event Council shall pass an ordinance or resolution approving a new lease, or a renegotiated existing lease, (as herein provided in Article III, Section 8(b)1), of any parcel or parcels of Village owned land for an “unconventional horizontal gas well”, then such ordinance or resolution shall not become effective until Council submits such “unconventional horizontal gas well” leasing ordinance or resolution to the electorate for approval at the next regular Municipal or General Election. An “unconventional horizontal gas well” shall include any well drilled more than one hundred feet vertically below the base of the Clinton sand (or the stratigraphic equivalent), and whose boring head then turns horizontally more than one hundred feet.
(Amended May 2, 1995; November 3, 2015)