Legal Documents of Rocky Top

Section 9

Ordinances

All ordinances of the city shall begin with the words, "Be it enacted by the city council of the City of Rocky Top," and shall close with the words, "the welfare of the city requiring it."

Every ordinance shall be passed on two different days in open session, and not less than seven calendar days shall elapse between the first and second readings. Only the caption of ordinances shall be required to be read.

An ordinance shall take effect immediately unless otherwise specified in the ordinance. An emergency ordinance must contain the statement that an emergency exists and shall become effective upon the date of its final passage. The unanimous vote of all the members of the city council present and voting shall be required to pass an emergency ordinance. No ordinance 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 be passed as an emergency ordinance.

Every ordinance, upon its final passage, shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the recorder, and entered into an ordinance book by the recorder, which shall be filed and preserved in the office of the recorder.