All ordinances, resolutions or franchises shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, and transcribed in the proper books therefor, but no ordinance, resolution or franchise shall take effect and become operative until thirty (30) days after its passage, except measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health or safety of the city; but no such emergency measure shall become immediately operative unless it shall state, in a separate section, the reasons why it is necessary that it should become immediately operative, and be approved by the affirmative vote of five (5) members of the mayor and council, taken by ayes and noes; provided, further, that all ordinances and resolutions having the effect of ordinances or required to be published, except emergency ordinances and resolutions, shall be published at least three (3) consecutive times in the official newspaper of the city, and a copy thereof posted on a bulletin board in front of the City Hall, before they become effective and operative.
(Prop. 403, eff. 2-2-2016)
Cross References: Printing and publication of propositions required to be submitted to voters, ch. XIX, § 5.
Annotations--Adoption of an electrical code by resolution which was in turn adopted by an ordinance which complied with the requirements of ch. IX, § 8. constituted an effective adoption of the electrical code, City of Tucson v. Stewart, 45 Ariz. 36, 40 p. 2d 72. Chapter IX, § 10 does not mean that emergency measures passed pursuant to ch. IX, § 8 will not become effective until thirty days after passage; they become effective upon passage under ch. IX, § 8 above. Burton v. City of Tucson, 88 Ariz. 320, 356 P. 2d 413.