Upon the adoption by the Council, this Code is hereby declared to be and shall hereafter constitute the Official City Code of Clive. This Code Of Ordinances shall be known and cited as the Clive City Code and is hereby published by authority of the Council and shall be supplemented to incorporate the most recent legislation of the City as provided in Section 1-1-3 of this chapter. Any reference to the number of any section contained herein shall be understood to refer to the position of the same number, its appropriate chapter and title heading, and to the general penalty clause relating thereto, as well as to the section itself, when reference is made to this Code by title in any legal documents.
The City Code, as hereby presented in printed form, shall hereafter be received without further proof in all courts and in administrative tribunals of this State as the ordinances of the City of general and permanent effect, except the excluded ordinances enumerated in Section 1-2-1 of this title.
Any ordinance amending the City Code shall set forth the title, chapter, and section number of the section or sections to be amended, and this shall constitute sufficient compliance with any statutory requirement pertaining to the amendment or revision by ordinance of any part of this Code. All such amendments or revisions by ordinance shall be immediately forwarded to the codifiers, and the said ordinance material shall be prepared for insertion in its proper place in each copy of this Code. Each such replacement page shall be properly identified and shall be inserted in each individual copy of the City Code.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 380.2)
The City may, except as expressly limited by the State constitution, and if not inconsistent with the laws of the State general assembly, exercise any power and perform any function it deems appropriate to protect and preserve the rights, privileges, and property of the City and of its residents, and preserve and improve the peace, safety, health, welfare, comfort, and convenience of its residents, and each and every provision of this Code shall be deemed to be in the exercise of the foregoing powers and the performance of the foregoing functions.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.1)
It is unlawful for any unauthorized person to change or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of this Code of Ordinances, or to insert or delete pages, or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with the code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City to be misrepresented thereby.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 718.5)