Rule No. 7. - Procedures for enacting ordinances.

A proposed ordinance shall be read by title at not less than two meetings of the city council with at least one week intervening between each meeting.

No proposed ordinance shall be materially amended at the same meeting at which finally adopted. No proposed amendment shall be construed as materially amending the proposed ordinance except by order of the presiding officer either upon the presiding officer's own motion or that of any member of the city council.

The city council may enact an ordinance at the same meeting at which it is introduced in the case of a pressing public emergency in the event delay would endanger the public health, safety or morals. The nature of such emergency shall be set out in full in the proposed ordinance. No motion to suspend the rules shall be necessary or in order but any such proposed ordinance must be approved by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to the city council except when otherwise provided in the Code of West Virginia.