40:81-21 - Emergency ordinances
40:81-21.Ā Emergency ordinances
No ordinance passed by the municipal council shall go into effect before tenĀ days from the time of its final passage, except when otherwise required by theĀ general laws of the state or by the provisions of this subtitle, but anĀ ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public order, peace, health orĀ safety, or to remedy an emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm,Ā epidemic, recovery of judgment, the act of God or the public enemy, may beĀ passed to take effect immediately without publication and at one meeting, byĀ the vote of one more than a majority of the members of the municipal council.
No ordinance passed by the municipal council shall go into effect before tenĀ days from the time of its final passage, except when otherwise required by theĀ general laws of the state or by the provisions of this subtitle, but anĀ ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public order, peace, health orĀ safety, or to remedy an emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm,Ā epidemic, recovery of judgment, the act of God or the public enemy, may beĀ passed to take effect immediately without publication and at one meeting, byĀ the vote of one more than a majority of the members of the municipal council.