An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution to take effect at the time indicated therein, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety. Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege, regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, or changing the boundaries of the City shall ever be so passed. Emergency ordinances and resolutions must receive the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of all members of Council upon the yea or nay vote taken on adoption, and the reasons for the necessity of declaring said ordinance or resolution to be an emergency measure shall be set forth in one section of the ordinance or resolution in clear and specific terms.
(Amended 11-8-66.)