Section 4.10 Effective Date of Ordinances and Resolutions.

   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 (the term emergency and the emergency clause refer to the time period in which legislation becomes effective upon its adoption);

shall take effect, unless a later time be specified therein, upon its signature by the Mayor, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be disapproved by the Mayor, or upon its passage after its disapproval 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 three (3) of the members elected to Council for its enactment.  

   None of the following types of ordinances or resolutions shall be enacted as an emergency measure:

   (a)    Relating to any changes in the boundaries;

   (b)    Providing for the surrender or joint exercise of any of its powers;

   (c)    Granting any franchise; or

   (d)    Contracting for the supply to the Municipality or its inhabitants of the products or service of any utility, whether municipally owned or not.

      (Amended November 2, 1999; November 3, 2009))