Appropriation ordinances, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of city affairs, resolutions, requesting information from administrative officers, or directing administrative action, and emergency measures, shall be in effect from and after their passage by the commission unless some other time be specified therein. All other ordinances and resolutions passed by the commission shall be in effect from and after ten (10) days from the date of first publication except those in which a later date for taking effect is specified. Ordinances adopted by vote of the electors shall take effect at the time indicated therein, or, if no time be specified, then thirty (30) days after the election adopting such ordinance or resolution. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution to provide for immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, in which the emergency claimed is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. The affirmative vote of at least seventy-five percent of the members of the City Commission, either elected or appointed thereto concurring shall be required to pass any ordinance or resolution as an emergency measure. No measure making or amending a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 43-79)