The Council may, with an affirmative vote of not less than five (5) members, pass emergency ordinances to take effect immediately upon their passage, or at the time indicated therein in order to preserve the public interest or to provide for special emergencies in the operation of the usual City services. Each emergency ordinance shall set forth the specific facts necessitating the emergency legislation. No legislation involving the granting, renewing or extending of a franchise or regulating the rate to be charged for public utility services or granting or renewing any permit, license, or authorization to construct, operate or expand any sanitary landfill, waste disposal facility, or waste processing facility or to adopt, amend, enact or repeal any zoning regulation affecting the use and occupancy of land or structures shall be passed as an emergency measure. In lieu of publication by posting before adoption, the notice of adoption of an emergency measure shall be published by posting thereof within one (1) week after its adoption in not less than three (3) of the most public places in the City, to be determined by Council and placed on the City's website.
(Amended 11-04-2008; 11-06-2018)