§ 3.17. EMERGENCY ORDINANCES:

  To meet a public emergency affecting life, property, or the public peace, the Council may adopt emergency ordinances. Such ordinances shall not levy taxes, grant, renew, or extend a franchise, or regulate the rate charged by any public utility for its services. Neither shall they authorize the borrowing of money, except as provided in Section 9.04. An emergency ordinance shall be introduced in the form and manner generally prescribed for ordinances, except that it shall be plainly designated in the title as an emergency ordinance and shall contain, after the enacting clause, a declaration stating that an emergency exists and describing it in clear and specific terms. Such emergency clause shall require the affirmative vote of three members of the City Council. An emergency ordinance may be adopted with or without amendment or rejected at the meeting at which it is introduced. After adoption, the ordinance shall be published as required for other adopted ordinances and shall become effective immediately. Every emergency ordinance so adopted, except one authorizing the borrowing of money as described herein, shall automatically stand repealed as of the sixty-first day following the day on which it became effective, but this shall not prevent reenactment of the ordinance.