A. No ordinance of any kind, where an ordinance is required by law, and no resolution granting a franchise for any purpose shall be passed by the city council on the day of its introduction, nor within five days thereafter, nor at any time other than a regular or adjourned regular meeting.
B. Every such ordinance or resolution shall be read in full unless after reading the title thereof the further reading thereof is waived by motion regularly made and adopted by the unanimous vote of the councilmembers present.
C. In the event that such ordinance or resolution is altered after its introduction, the same shall not be finally adopted except at a regular or adjourned regular meeting held not less than five days after the date upon which such ordinance or resolution was so altered. The correction of typographical or clerical errors shall not constitute the making of an alteration within the meaning of the foregoing sentence.
D. Resolutions or orders for the payment of money shall be adopted or made only at a regular meeting or at a special meeting for which the notice of such special meeting specifies the business to be transacted. No such ordinance or resolution or any order for the payment of money shall have any validity or effect unless passed by the votes of at least three members of the city council.
E. No ordinance shall become effective until thirty days from and after the date of its final passage, except an ordinance calling or otherwise relating to an election and except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety which contains a declaration of and the facts constituting its urgency and unless it is passed by a four-fifths vote of the city council, and except ordinances relating to street improvement proceedings and other ordinances governed by particular provisions of state law prescribing the manner of their passage and adoption. (Ord. 2023-11-1545 § 20, 2023; Ord. 84-1-917 § 2 (part): prior code § 2.04.080 (Ord. 2011-07- 1428, § 1; Ord. 268 § 1, 1944; Ord. 113 § 1, 1930))