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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 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 front footage of the property benefitted and to be specially assessed therefor, may be passed as emergency measures. No action of the Council in authorizing any change in the boundaries of the Municipality, or the surrender or joint exercise 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 ever be passed as an emergency measure. Emergency ordinances and resolutions, upon a yea or nay vote, shall receive the affirmative vote of five (5) members of the Council and the reasons for the necessity of declaring each such ordinance or resolution to be an emergency measure shall be defined in the preamble or in one section of the ordinance or resolution.
The Council shall by ordinance make provision for:
(a) The time and place of regular meetings of the Council;
(b) The method of calling special meetings of the Council;
(c) The form and method of enactment of its ordinances and resolutions, except as otherwise provided in this Charter;
(d) The procedure for making public improvements and levying assessments, including the procedure for combining two or more public improvements and the levying of assessments therefor in one proceeding if the Council shall determine that it will be economical and practical to contract such improvements jointly;
(e) The advertising and awarding of contracts except as otherwise provided in this Charter;
(f) Such other general regulations as the Council may deem necessary including regulations as to the custody and use of an official seal by the Director of Finance as the Clerk of Council.
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