§11-44-136. Publication, enactment, etc., of ordinances or resolutions generally.

No resolution or ordinance granting any franchise, appropriating any money for any purpose (except ordinary payroll, monthly expense, and supply items), providing for any public improvements, enacting any regulations concerning the public comfort, public safety or public health, or of any other general and permanent nature shall be enacted which has not been published one time in a newspaper at least seven days prior to the final enactment thereof and which is not voted on at a regular or adjourned public meeting of the board; provided, that a meeting of the board may be called at any time to consider and act upon an emergency that involves the public safety or public health when not otherwise provided in this section.

Every resolution or ordinance introduced at any and every such meeting shall be reduced to writing and read before any vote thereon shall be taken, and the yeas and nays thereon shall be recorded.

(Acts 1964, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 214, p. 288, §7.)