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• Every ordinance shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, which record shall be attested by the clerk. Ordinances making the annual tax levy, ordinances relating to local improvements and assessments therefor, ordinances making appropriations, and ordinances passed by a majority plus one of the whole membership of the council, designated therein as a public emergency ordinance necessary for the protection of public health, public safety, public property or the public peace may be made effective upon becoming valid, but such ordinance may not levy taxes, grant, renew, modify or extend a franchise, or authorize the borrowing of money. An ordinance which grants, renews, modifies or extends a franchise shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its becoming valid unless a later date is fixed therein, in which event it shall take effect at such later date. All other ordinances enacted by the council shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the date of their becoming valid unless a later date is fixed therein, in which event they shall take effect at such later date. Ordinances adopted by the electors of the city shall take effect at the time fixed therein, or, if no such time is designated therein, at the date of the adoption thereof is recommended to be changed to: Ordinances - Styles -Requisites - Veto All legislation and appropriations of money shall be by ordinance, save where there is a special fund for a particular purpose; payments from such fund shall be made on order of the council. The subject of every ordinance shall be set our clearly in the title thereof, and no ordinance, except one making appropriations, shall contain more than one subject. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be in the words "The City of Everett does ordain". No ordinance or any section or subsection thereof shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance sets forth the revised ordinance or the amended section or subsection at full length. Every ordinance, other than emergency ordinances, shall have three (3) public readings, not more than two of which shall be on the same day, and at least six days shall elapse between the introduction and the final passage, except as otherwise provided in this charter. Every ordinance and resolution shall be in writing and a summary read at a council meeting before a vote is taken thereon, and upon every such vote the ayes and nays shall be called and recorded. CHARTER AMENDMENT ORDINANCE Page 15