3.11 When Ordinances and Resolutions Take Effect.

   Appropriation ordinances and resolutions, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of City affairs, ordinances or resolutions requesting information from administrative officers or directing administrative action, and emergency measures, shall be in effect from and after their passage by the Council unless some other time is specified therein. All other resolutions passed by Council shall take effect immediately upon passage; all other ordinances passed by the Council shall be in effect from and after thirty days from the date of their passage except those in which a later date for taking effect is specified. Ordinances adopted by vote of the electors shall take effect at the time indicated therein or, if no time is specified, then thirty days after their adoption. 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 the ordinance or resolution. The affirmative vote of a least five members of Council 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 be passed as an emergency measure. (Amended 11-3-20.)