Section 39. Reading and passage-suspension of requirement.
   Each ordinance or resolution of a general, or permanent nature, or one granting a franchise, or creating a right, or involving the expenditure of money or the levying of a tax, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property, shall be introduced and read one time only, which reading shall be by title only unless a member of the Council shall request that it be read in full, and such ordinance or resolution shall be passed, which passage may be without further reading, not earlier than the next succeeding regular or special meeting of the Council provided that such prohibition may be suspended by a three-fourths vote of the members of the Council taken by "yeas" and "nays" and entered on the journal of the Council, in which event such passage may occur at the meeting at which the ordinance or resolution is introduced and read.
(Amended by electors 11-3-81)