§ 18. "Emergency measure" defined; enactment of ordinances as emergency measures.

An emergency measure is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public business, property, health or safety, or providing for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in which the emergency is set forth in such ordinance. No ordinance regulating the rate or rates to be charged for services furnished the public generally by public utilities shall be passed as an emergency measure, nor shall such an ordinance be finally passed on the date it is introduced, but must be passed and voted upon at two public meetings of the city council. No ordinance making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall be passed as an emergency measure nor shall such an ordinance be finally passed and voted on the date it is introduced, but must be passed and voted upon at three public meetings of the city council.

(Ord. No. 889; Ord. No. 5567, § 3, 1-23-89)