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The action by the Council shall be by ordinance or resolution. On the passage of every ordinance or resolution, the vote shall be taken by "yeas" and "nays," and entered upon the journal, but this shall not apply to the ordering of an election, or the direction of the Council to any board or officer to furnish information.
Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form, and shall not contain more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in the title, but general appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are to be appropriated. The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the Council shall be, "Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo," and the enacting clause of an ordinance adopted by the people upon the initiative petition shall be, "Be it ordained by the people of the City of Toledo."
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)
No ordinance or resolution shall be passed unless a majority of all the members of the Council concur therein; provided, however, that any ordinance or resolution which is an emergency measure shall require a separate affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members of the Council upon the inclusion in the ordinance or resolution of the emergency section.
(Amended by electors 11-3-81)
Emergency measures shall take effect from and after their passage in accordance with Sections 43A and 43B of this Charter. All other ordinances and resolutions shall be in effect from and after thirty (30) days from either the approval of the Mayor pursuant to Section 43A or final action of Council pursuant to Section 43B in the event of a veto by the Mayor; provided, however, that if referendum on any measure is demanded, the same shall not take effect until after approval by the people.
(Amended by electors 11-3-92)
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