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Ordinances providing for appropriations for current expenses of the municipality, or for public improvements petitioned for the owners of a majority of the foot frontage of property benefited and to be specially assessed for the cost thereof, or for raising revenue, or ordinances wherein an emergency is declared to exist, shall become effective immediately upon passage or at such later date as may be provided therein, and such ordinances shall not be subject to referendum. All other ordinances shall take effect 30 days after passage. An emergency ordinance as referred to herein is one which must be passed and made effective at once or in less than 30 days to meet an emergency in the operation of the City government, or which is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare. Each emergency ordinance must contain therein a separate section setting forth the reason for the emergency. No ordinance granting a franchise or fixing a rate to be charged by a public utility shall be passed as an emergency measure.
All ordinances passed by the Council shall be published except as otherwise required by law, as used in this Section "published" shall mean to post copies thereof, or a summary of such adopted legislation, on the City's website and in not less than three of the most public places in the City, as determined by the Council for a period of not less than ten days and to take such other actions as provided by Council. It also includes posting on the City's website. Failure to publish as required by this Section shall not invalidate any ordinance.
The initiative and referendum powers, reserved to the people under the Ohio Constitution, shall be exercised in the manner provided by the Ohio Constitution, the laws of the State of Ohio and this Charter, except: that any initiative or referendum petition filed with the Auditor of the City of Oxford shall contain the signatures of not less than ten percent of the voters who voted at the preceding election for the office of Governor; that when a petition having the required number of signatures is filed with the City Auditor, it shall be held in the Auditor's office for a period of 15 days before certification of the text of the proposed ordinance is made to the Board of Elections; that the committee designated by the petitioners to file said petition shall consist of five members. In all other respects, the procedure with reference to initiative and referendum petitions shall be the same as that provided by the Constitution, laws of the State of Ohio and this Charter. Whenever the Council is required to pass more than one ordinance to complete the legislation necessary to complete and pay for any public improvement, the referendum shall apply only to the first ordinance to be passed and not to any subsequent ordinance in the series relating thereto. Resolutions are not subject to referendum.
The Council may adopt model or standard codes prepared and published by public or private agencies on such matters as building construction, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, electric wiring, smoke regulation, fire prevention and other similar regulatory subjects by reference to the date and source of the code without reproducing the same in full in the ordinance. In all cases in which such a code shall be adopted by reference, publication of the code, at length, by the City, shall not be required. One copy of all such adopted codes shall be available for viewing at City offices.