SECTION 12. ORDINANCE RECORD; APPROPRIATIONS.
   All ordinances or resolutions upon their final passage shall be recorded in a book kept for the purpose and shall be authenticated by the signatures of the presiding officer, Clerk of the Council and the Mayor, unless a certificate of the Clerk is attached thereto showing such signature of the Mayor is unnecessary under the provision hereof.
   The annual appropriation ordinance and all other ordinances or resolutions embracing the subjects of salaries, the necessity for and intention to install public improvements which contain provisions for assessments against abutting properties, grants of public utility franchises, shall, at the option of the Council, within ten (10) days after their final passage, be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Maple Heights, or be posted in five (5) public places in the City, said places to be designated by the Council; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to change or modify the provisions of law now existing requiring the publication of certain ordinances, or which may hereafter be required to be published according to the laws of the State.