SECTION 3.01. ACTION OF COUNCIL.

Action of Council shall be by ordinance or resolution, except that non-legislative and procedural actions may be taken by oral motion recorded in the Council minutes. Every action of a general or permanent nature, or granting a franchise, or levying a tax, or appropriating money, or contracting an indebtedness to be evidence by the issuance of bonds or notes, or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property, shall be taken formally by ordinance, in the manner provided.

SECTION 3.02. INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES.

No ordinance shall be passed without the concurrence of a majority of all members elected to Council, except that emergency ordinances, as hereinafter provided, shall require concurrence of three-fourths of all members elected to Council for passage. Before passage every ordinance shall be fully and distinctly read on two different days, unless an emergency is declared as hereinafter provided, or unless by three-fourths vote of all members elected to Council, a reading thereof in full on two different days is dispensed with, in which cases such ordinance may be read one time and passed on the day of such reading. Any ordinance may contain a number of separate legislative sections as long as they deal with the same general subject or with the same code within the Codified Ordinances, e.g., the Traffic Code or Building Code.

SECTION 3.03. PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES.

No ordinance shall be passed without the concurrence of a majority of all members elected to Council, except that emergency ordinances, as hereinafter provided, shall require concurrence of three-fourths of all members elected to Council for passage. Before passage, copies of every ordinance shall be made available to the audience; and the title of the ordinance shall be read on two different days unless an emergency is declared as provided in Section 3.04, or unless by three-fourths vote of all members of Council it is determined to read the ordinance by title only once, in which case the ordinance may be passed on that day.

SECTION 3.04. EFFECTIVE DATE.

Ordinances providing for appropriations for current expenses of the municipality, or for public improvements petitioned for by the owners of a majority of the foot frontage of property benefitted and to be specially assessed for the cost thereof, or for raising revenue, or ordinances wherein an emergency is declared to exist, shall become effective immediately upon passage or at such later date as may be provided therein, and such ordinances shall not be subject to referendum. All other ordinances shall take effect thirty days after passage. An emergency ordinance as referred to herein is one which must be passed and made effective at once or in less than thirty days to meet an emergency in the operation of the City government, or which is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, morals, or welfare. An emergency ordinance must contain therein a separate section setting forth the reason for the emergency. No ordinance granting a franchise or fixing a rate to be charged by a public utility shall be passed as an emergency ordinance.