All legislative action by the Council shall be by ordinance or resolution introduced in written or printed form, and on the passage of each ordinance or resolution, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, entered upon the journal, but this shall not apply to the ordering of an election.
No bylaw, ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature, or granting a franchise, or creating a right, or specifically authorizing the expenditure of money, or the levying of a tax, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property, shall be passed unless it has been fully and distinctly read on three (3) different days, unless five (5) members of Council vote to suspend this rule.
Whenever Council is required to pass more than one ordinance or other measure to complete the legislation necessary to make and pay for any public improvement, Section 9.02 of Article IX of this Charter shall apply only to the first ordinance or other measure required to be passed, and not to any subsequent ordinance and other measures relating thereto. Ordinances or other measures providing for the appropriation of the current expenses of the Municipality or for street improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the foot front of the property benefited and to be especially assessed for the cost thereof, and emergency ordinances or measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety in the Municipality, shall go into immediate effect. Such emergency ordinances or measures must receive a vote of five (5) members of Council, and the reason for such emergency shall be set forth in one section of the ordinance or preamble. All other ordinances or other measures, except those subject to referendum, shall go into effect upon passage, or at such other time as may be provided therein.
No action of the Council in authorizing the surrender of any of its powers or in granting any franchise, or in contracting for the supply to the Municipality or its inhabitants of the product or service of any utility, whether municipally owned or not, shall be taken as an emergency measure.
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, the adoption, rejection, amendment, authentication and recording, time of taking effect and the signing of every ordinance, resolution, bylaw or measure shall be in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Ohio as the same apply to cities.
(Amended November 6, 2018)