Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter, Council may at any time revise, rearrange and codify the general ordinances of the City by the following procedure:
(a) An ordinance may be adopted pursuant to the procedure of this chapter determining in general terms to amend, revise, rearrange, renumber and codify the general ordinances of the City. The determining ordinance shall set forth in a skeleton form a general plan of the recodification with appropriate titles, chapters and other subdivisions. Such determining ordinance need not be published.
(b) At any time after the adoption of the determining ordinance provided for in the foregoing subsection, Council may proceed as follows:
(1) It may by one (1) codifying ordinance adopt in toto all general ordinances of the City so amended, revised, rearranged, renumbered and codified according to the general plan; or
(2) It may by a series of separate codifying ordinances and from time to time adopt one (1) or more chapters of the general plan. A chapter shall contain those of the general ordinances which Council may determine to properly belong in such classifications and which have been amended, revised, rearranged, renumbered and codified according to the general plan.
(c) Any codifying ordinance offered pursuant to subsection (b) hereof shall be submitted in typewritten form and shall contain in full all the ordinances proposed to be codified by the codifying ordinance. Such codification ordinance need not be read in Council except as hereinafter provided. Such codifying ordinance shall be referred by the Mayor to a committee consisting of Council as a whole, Mayor and Director of Law. It shall be the duty of the committee to study the codifying ordinance and make such changes therein as the committee believes proper and to report to Council. If, and when, such committee reports its final draft of the proposed codifying ordinance with the recommendation that it be adopted, the codifying ordinance as so reported may be passed by a vote of three-fourths (3/4) of all members elected to Council. The proposed ordinance as recommended by the committee need not be read in Council except by title, provided, however, that any member of Council may request the reading of all or any part thereof in which case all or the part requested shall be read.
(d) Such codifying ordinance need not be limited in its scope strictly to amending, revising, rearranging, renumbering and codifying the present general ordinances of the City, but may contain new matter or provisions covering subjects not now embodied in existing ordinances.
(e) Any codifying ordinance shall specify whether or not the particular chapters so codified shall be published or printed and, if the same is to be published, may provide that the same may be published in sections and shall recite when such codifying ordinance shall take effect and be in force and shall provide for the repeal of all existing ordinances so codified.
(Ord. 42-1939. Passed 11-6-39; Ord. 153-2021. Passed 12-6-21.)