In addition to any other actions required by law or by this
Charter to be taken by ordinance, those actions of the City Council
shall be by ordinance which:
(1) Adopt or amend the annual budget and the capital program.
(2) Adopt or amend an administrative code or establish, alter or abolish
any City department, office or agency.
(3) Adopt or amend a manual establishing a human resources system for
the City.
(4) Provide for a fine or other penalty or establish a rule or regulation
for violation of which a fine or other penalty is imposed.
(6) Grant, renew or extend a franchise.
(7) Establish, alter or abolish rates charged for any utility or other
service supplied by the City.
(8) Authorize the borrowing of money.
(9) Convey or lease or authorize the conveyance or lease of any lands
of the City.
(10) Amend or repeal any ordinance previously adopted unless such previous
ordinance action could have been taken by resolution or motion.
Every ordinance shall contain the date of its enactment, and
its enactment shall be verified by the signature of the presiding
officer of the meeting where final action thereon was taken. However,
failure on the part of the presiding officer to sign an ordinance
shall not in any way invalidate an otherwise valid ordinance.
To meet a public emergency affecting life, health, property
or the public peace, the City Council may adopt emergency ordinances,
but such ordinances may not levy taxes, grant, renew, or extend a
franchise, regulate the rate charged by any public utility for its
services or authorize the borrowing of money except as provided in
this Charter. An emergency ordinance may be adopted at the meeting
at which it is introduced, but the affirmative vote of at least five
(5) members shall be required for adoption, or a majority plus one
in the event vacancies in office prevent five members being present
to vote. The ordinance need not be published prior to adoption, but
must be published as soon as possible thereafter and shall become
effective upon adoption or at such later time as it may specify. Every
emergency ordinance, shall automatically stand repealed as of the
sixty first (61st) day following the date on which it was adopted,
but this shall not prevent reenactment of the ordinance in the manner
specified in this section if the emergency still exists.
The penalty for the violation of any ordinance shall be that
prescribed by City Council for each violation and if no penalty shall
be set forth, the penalty shall be as prescribed by Council by ordinance
establishing such penalties. Council may in any ordinance, provide
that for continuing violations each day that a violation exists may
be regarded as a separate offense and punishable as such.