(A) No ordinance shall be adopted by the City Council at the same meeting at which it is offered for consideration, but each ordinance shall pass to a second reading and shall not be adopted at a meeting occurring less than five days after the meeting at which it was referred.
(B) If a motion or resolution to suspend the operation of this rule shall be adopted by a two-thirds vote of all the members present, then the ordinance may be adopted on proper motion in the meeting.
(Ord. 549, passed 6-16-1942; Am. Ord. 1323, passed - -; Am. Ord. 1385, passed 11-18-1997)