(A) Each bill which proposes an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of this code, and each bill which proposes an ordinance of a general and permanent nature, suitable for inclusion in this code though constituting new subject matter not therein contained, shall be so drafted as to specify the specific section numbers, divisions and the like of this code of ordinances which are to be repealed or amended and, with respect to additions and to new subject matter, as to provide appropriate chapter, subchapter, section and the like numbers therefor; and each amendment of and addition to this code shall be set out in full, and appropriate chapter and subchapter headings and section catchlines shall be included.
(B) Upon the adoption of an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of this code or to include new subject matter in this code, the City Clerk shall separate the several chapters, subchapters, sections and the like of such ordinance and enter them in their proper places in each file copy of this code, and shall remove therefrom any portion so repealed or amended and, in the margin of each insertion in the file copies of this code, he or she shall note and initial the date of passage, effective date and number of the amending or repealing ordinance.
(C) Items removed from the file copies of this code, pursuant to division (B) above, shall be maintained by the City Clerk in a separate, loose-leaf volume, arranged properly according to their respective chapters, articles, sections and the like, and each item so removed from the file copies of this code shall, in the margin of each such item, be noted and initialed by the City Clerk to show the effective date and the number of both the enacting and repealing or amending ordinances. The volume in which such repealed and amended items are to be included shall be known as the “Record of Repealed and Amended Portions of the Code of the City of Elkins, West Virginia”, the purpose or which shall be to enable city officers, and other persons interested, to ascertain the status of this code at any given time in the past.
(D) The requirements of division (B) above are in addition to the requirement that each ordinance, upon adoption, shall be included in the record of ordinances.
(1991 Code, § 2-15)