# Section 2.40 Emergency Ordinances. An ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety or support of the county government and its existing institutions may be passed by a two-thirds vote of the County Council, which shall be effective immediately when approved by the County Executive. No emergency ordinances may levy taxes, grant, renew or extend a franchise, regulate the rate charged by any utility or authorize the borrowing of money for more than one hundred and twenty (120) days. An emergency ordinance shall be introduced and passed in the manner prescribed for emergency ordinances generally, except that the emergency and the facts creating it shall be stated in a separate section of the emergency ordinance. The provisions of every ordinance, except one making appropriations from an emergency reserve of borrowing money for one hundred and twenty (120) days or less, shall expire as of the sixty-first (61st) day following the date on which the ordinance became law.