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SECTION 7.04 PROCEDURE OF PASSAGE OF NON-EMERGENCY ORDINANCES.
    Every ordinance shall be introduced in written form. After its first reading which may be by title only, the ordinance shall be posted at the City Building. A copy of the ordinance in the form in which it was introduced shall be made available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of Council of the City, together with a notation as to the time and place of its consideration for second and third readings or for Council action.
SECTION 7.05 SECOND READING, THIRD READING, AND FINAL ADOPTION.
    For the second and third readings, at the time and place so published by posting, such ordinance shall be read by title only. After the third such reading, the Council may finally adopt such ordinance.
SECTION 7.06 AMENDMENT OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS.
   No existing ordinance or resolution or any section thereof, shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire proposed ordinance or resolution as revised or amended, and the existing ordinance or resolution or any section thereof so amended shall be repealed. This requirement shall not prevent the amendment of an ordinance or resolution by the addition of a new section or sections, and in such case the full text of the former ordinance or resolution need not be set forth.
   Except in the case of a codification or recodification of ordinances and resolutions, a separate vote shall be taken on each ordinance or resolution proposed to be amended.
   Ordinances and resolutions that have been introduced and have received their first, second or third reading, but have not been voted on as to passage, may be amended or revised upon approval by a majority vote of the members of Council, and such amended or revised ordinance or resolution need not receive readings in addition to the readings required by this Article. (Amended 11-5-91.)
SECTION 7.07 RULE SUSPENSION.
   The Council, on an affirmative vote of five (5) members, may suspend the rule preventing adoption of an ordinance prior to the third reading. A summary of an ordinance adopted under Rule Suspension shall be published by posting within one (1) week.
SECTION 7.08 EFFECTIVE DATE.
   Unless the ordinance shall specify a later date, the effective date of any ordinance shall be thirty (30) days after its adoption, except as otherwise provided in this Charter or by the Constitution of the State of Ohio. A resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
   Ordinances providing for appropriations for the current expenses in the City, or for street improvements petitioned for by the owners of the majority of the front footage of the property benefitted to be assessed for the improvement shall go into immediate effect.
   Every ordinance or resolution, upon its final passage, shall be recorded in a book kept for this purpose, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer and the Clerk of the Council.
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