(A) The City Attorney shall be, ex officio, the city code editor. As such, he or she shall prepare or cause to be prepared supplements to, or otherwise revise, this code, noting the sections which have been repealed, generally updating this code, and including, at his or her discretion, updated annotations of court decisions or citations to other laws. He or she may make and enter into all contracts and execute, acknowledge and deliver all instruments necessary or incidental to the performance of his or her duties under this section, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for such purposes.
(B) In performing his or her duties and exercising his or her authority under this section, the city code editor shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the Council, but he or she may:
(1) Renumber and rearrange sections or parts of sections;
(2) Transfer sections or divide sections, so as to give distinct subject matters separate section numbers, but without changing the meanings thereof;
(3) Insert or change the wording of headnotes and catchlines;
(4) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or sections;
(5) Substitute the proper section or chapter number for the terms “this ordinance”, “the preceding section” and the like;
(6) Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words, and vice versa;
(7) Change capitalization for the sake of uniformity;
(8) Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors; and
(9) Make any other purely formal or clerical changes in keeping with the purposes of the revision.
(C) The city code editor shall omit all titles of ordinances, all enacting, resolving and repealing clauses, all appropriation measures, all temporary ordinances, all declarations of emergency and all validity, declaration of policy and construction clauses, except when the retention thereof is necessary or desirable to preserve the full meaning and intent of the Council; and he or she may add such editor’s notes as he or she deems appropriate.
(1991 Code, § 2-25)