Skip to main content
Loading…
This section is included in your selections.

A. All ordinances before taking effect shall be deposited in the office of the City Recorder and published at least once in some newspaper published within the City, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then by posting in three public places therein; provided, that whenever a revision is made and the revised ordinances are published by authority of the City Council no further publication shall be deemed necessary, and that ordinances establishing rules and regulations for the construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing, electric wiring or other related or similar work, and rules and regulations controlling traffic and relating to the prevention of fires within the City where such rules and regulations have been printed as a code in book form, may be adopted and shall take effect without further publication or posting thereof, if reference is made to such code, and not less than three copies of such code shall have been filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the City Recorder prior to the adoption of such ordinance by the City Council. Ordinances shall not go into effect at the time of enactment but on the twentieth day after their publication or posting, nor until the thirtieth day after publication or posting, or such thirtieth day after such final passage, or whichever of such days is the most remote from the final passage of such ordinance. Ordinances, if so provided therein, may take effect at a later date. Measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health or safety of the City may, if so provided in the ordinance, take effect at an earlier date.

B. The City Recorder shall record all resolutions and ordinances in a book kept for that purpose, together with the affidavit of publication by the publisher or his agent, or, if posted, with the certificates of the due posting thereof; and such book, or a certified copy of the ordinances and affidavit of publication or posting, under the seal of the City, shall be received as evidence in all courts and places without further proof, or if printed in book or pamphlet form by authority of the City Council they shall be so received. (Prior code § 1-16)