(A) To meet a public emergency affecting life, health, or property, one or more emergency ordinances may be enacted. However, an emergency ordinance may not levy taxes, grant, renew, or extend a franchise, or regulate the rate charged by any public utility for its service.
(B) An emergency ordinance shall be introduced in the form and manner required for ordinances generally, except that it shall contain after the enacting clause, a declaration stating that an emergency exists, and describing the emergency in clear, specific terms.
(C) An emergency ordinance may be enacted on the date of introduction and given immediate effect by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Commissioners present at the time of enactment.
(D) Every emergency ordinance is automatically repealed on the sixty-first (61st) day after its enactment, unless re-enacted pursuant to Section 4.
(Charter effective 1-1-77)