(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no ordinance shall be enacted until it has been read on two separate days. The reading of an ordinance may be satisfied by stating the title and reading a summary rather than the full text.
(KRS 83A.060(4))
(B) In an emergency, upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the membership, the Council may suspend the requirements of second reading and publication to provide for an ordinance to become effective by naming and describing the emergency in the ordinance. Publication requirements of § 32.43 shall be complied with within ten days of the enactment of the emergency ordinance.
(KRS 83A.060(7))
(C) Second readings of ordinances, including public hearings, are only to be held at regularly scheduled City Council meetings. If it is determined, by a majority vote of the City Council, that such second reading and public hearing is an urgent situation, then an exception may exist, allowing said second reading and public hearing to occur at a special meeting of the City Council.
(Ord. 11-2006, passed 4-3-2006)