§ 51. Form; enacting clause; emergency measures.

Every proposed ordinance or resolution shall be introduced in written or printed form and shall not contain more than one subject, which subject shall be clearly stated in the title, but general appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are to be appropriated. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be "Be it ordained by the City Commission of the City of Lake Butler, Florida." No ordinance, unless it shall be an emergency measure, shall be passed until it shall have been read at two regular meetings, not less than one week apart, or unless the requirement of such reading has been dispensed with by unanimous vote of the commission. An emergency measure is one necessary for preservation of general welfare, peace, health, prosperity or safety. No ordinance shall be enacted until all current statutory public notice requirements have been met.

No ordinance or resolution making a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise, or special privilege, or regulating the rate to be charged by the services of a public utility shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 99-477, § 1)

Editor's note

This section has been superseded in part by the uniform procedure for the adoption of ordinances, F.S. § 166.041.