An emergency measure is an ordinance or a resolution necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department, and shall take effect, unless a later time be specified therein, upon the signature of the Mayor, or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be disapproved by the Mayor, or upon its passage or adoption after disapproval by the Mayor, as the case may be. Ordinances providing for the appropriation of money, or for an annual tax levy, or for improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the foot frontage of the property benefitted and to be specially assessed therefor, may be passed as an emergency measure. No action of the Council in amending or enacting a change in the comprehensive zoning map of the City of Wickliffe, or authorizing any change in the boundaries of the City, or the surrender or joint exercise of any of its powers, or in granting any franchise, or in contracting for the supply to the City or its inhabitants of the product or service of any utility, whether municipally owned or not, shall ever be passed as an emergency measure. Emergency ordinances and resolutions, upon a yea or nay vote, must receive an affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all members elected to the Council, and the reason for the necessity of declaring such ordinance or resolution to be an emergency measure shall be defined in the preamble or in one section of the ordinance or resolution.
(Approved by voters June 7, 1977.)