SECTION 16. PROCEDURE FOR PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES AND FIRST READING.
   Every ordinance, except emergency ordinances, shall be introduced in writing in the form in which it is to be finally passed, and after passage on first reading shall be published by title only, at least once, in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, together with a notice of the time and place when and where it will be given a public hearing and be considered for final passage. The first such publication shall be at least one week prior to the time advertised for the public hearing.
   When Council has a vacancy, every ordinance, except emergency ordinances, must have an additional third reading with two weeks between the first and second readings and two weeks between the second and third readings, unless the ordinance is adopted on the second reading by an affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the current members of Council.
Amended November 7, 1978; November 7, 2023)