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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.
The Council may, with an affirmative vote of not less than five (5) members, pass emergency ordinances to take effect immediately upon their passage, or at the time indicated therein in order to preserve the public interest, public peace, property, health, safety or welfare, or to provide for special emergencies in the operation of City services. Each emergency ordinance shall set forth the specific facts necessitating the emergency legislation. No legislation involving the granting, renewing or extending of a franchise or regulating the rate to be charged for public utility services shall be passed as an emergency measure. In lieu of publication by posting before adoption, the emergency ordinance shall be published by posting within one (1) week after its passage as set forth in Section 7.04.