Section 12.

Ordinances appropriating money may be passed as emergency measures, but no measure making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged for its service by any public utility, shall ever be so passed; nor shall any ordinance, resolution or any other measure ever be passed providing for the levying or assessing of an occupational tax, upon the various trades, professions, occupations, businesses or employments carried on and performed in the City of Youngstown, without having first submitted such ordinance, resolution, or other measure providing therefor, to a vote of the electors of the City of Youngstown, and having been approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. (Amended November 3, 1925)