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§ 10.08 INTERPRETATION OF PROVISIONS.
   In interpreting and applying the provision of the code, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare. Where the provisions of the code impose greater restrictions or requirements than those of any state statute, other ordinance, resolution or regulation, the provisions of the code shall control. Where the provisions of any statute, other ordinance, resolution or regulation impose greater restrictions or requirements, the provisions of the statute, other ordinance, resolution or regulation shall control.
§ 10.09 HEADINGS, EDITOR’S NOTES, STATUTORY REFERENCES.
   (A)   Headings of titles, chapters, sections and divisions in the code, or in supplements to the code, are inserted into the code, and may be inserted into the supplements to the code, for the convenience of persons using the code and are not part of the legislation.
   (B)   Editors’s notes and/or statutory references indicating sources of sections, giving other information or referring the statutes or to other parts of the code are inserted in the code, and may be inserted in supplements to the code, for the convenience of persons using the code and are not part of the legislation.
§ 10.10 FILING COPIES OF CODE.
   One copy of the code in a bound volume shall be retained at the offices of the city and shall remain there for use and examination of the public. One attested copy shall be filed with the County Law Library or shall be filed electronically.
§ 10.11 AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE; CODE BOOKS TO BE KEPT UP-TO-DATE.
   (A)   Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the code, when passed and adopted so as to indicate the intention of City Council to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into the code so that the references in the code shall be understood and intended to include the changes. When any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the code shall be adopted, they shall be printed and inserted in the bound code book as amendments and supplements to it.
   (B)   The City Manager or someone authorized or directed by him or her shall keep the certified copies of the code book, which are required to be kept in the City Manager’s office for public use, up-to-date. All changes in the code, and all ordinances and resolutions adopted subsequent to the effective date of this code, which the City Council specifically adopts as part of the code, shall be included in the code book by reference until the changes or new ordinances or resolutions are printed as supplements to the code book and inserted into the code book.
§ 10.12 SEVERABILITY.
   (A)   If any title, chapter, section, division or part thereof of this code now enacted or subsequently amended or its application to any person or circumstances is held to be illegal, invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, that determination shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but is confined in its operation and application to the title, chapter, section, division or part thereof determined illegal, invalid or unconstitutional.
   (B)   It is the intent of the City Council to declare that this code would have been adopted if the illegal, invalid or unconstitutional title, chapter, section, division or part thereof would not have been included.
§ 10.13 REFERENCE TO OTHER SECTIONS.
   Whenever in one section, reference is made to another section hereof, the reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, recodified or renumbered unless the subject matter is changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
§ 10.14 ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
   (A)   If a manifest error is discovered, consisting of the misspelling of any words; the omission of any word or words necessary to express the intention of the provisions affected; the use of a word or words to which no meaning can be attached; or the use of a word or words when another word or words was clearly intended to express the intent, the spelling shall be corrected and the word or words supplied, omitted or substituted as will conform with the manifest intention, and the provisions shall have the same effect as though the correct words were contained in the text as originally published.
   (B)   No alteration shall be made or permitted if any question exists regarding the nature or extent of the error.
§ 10.15 SECTIONS HISTORIES; STATUTORY REFERENCES.
   (A)   (1)   As histories for the code sections, the specific number and passage date of the original ordinance, and amending ordinances, if any, are listed following the text of the code section.
      (2)   Example: (Ord. 10, passed 5-13-1960; Ord. 15, passed 1-1-1970; Ord. 20, passed 1-1-1980; Ord. 25, passed 1-1-1985)
     (B)   (1)   If a statutory cite is included in the history, this indicates that the text of the section reads substantially the same as the statute. Example: (65 Pa.C.S.A. § 704) (Ord. 10, passed 1-17-1980; Am. Ord. 20, passed 1-1-1985).
      (2)   If a statutory cite is set forth as a “statutory reference” following the text of the section, this indicates that the reader should refer to that statute for further information. Example:
   § 39.10 OPEN MEETINGS.
      Official action and deliberations by a quorum of the members of an agency shall take place at a meeting open to the public unless otherwise permitted.
   Statutory reference:
      Open meetings and public records, see 65 Pa.C.S. §§ 701 et seq.
§ 10.16 ALTERING OR TAMPERING WITH THE CODE; PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION.
   It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, or to alter or tamper with the code or any part or portion thereof, in any manner which will cause the law of the city to be misrepresented thereby.
Penalty, see § 10.99
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