All ordinances and resolutions passed by the City Commission shall be in effect from and after 30 days from the date of their passage, except that the City Commission may, by an affirmative vote of 5 of its members, pass emergency measures to take effect at the time indicated therein.
Any emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. 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, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be so passed.
(Amend. passed by the voters 11-7-78)