SECTION 4.09 POWERS AND DUTIES.

   The legislative powers of the Municipality, except as otherwise provided by this Charter and by the Constitution of the State of Ohio, shall be vested in the Council.

   The Council shall by ordinance make provision for the following:

   a.    The time and place of regular meetings of the Council.

   b.    The method of calling special meetings of the Council.

    c.    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 provided that ordinances and resolutions shall be made available to the public in printed form on request to the Clerk.

   The Council may by ordinance make provision for the following:

   a.    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, or 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 (3) different days unless the requirement for such three (3) readings be dispensed with by the affirmative vote of five (5) of the members of Council in accordance with Section 4.10.

   b.    The procedure for making public improvements and levying assessments, including the procedure for combining two (2) 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.

   c.    The advertising and awarding of contracts.

   d.    Such other general regulations as the Council may deem necessary.