All ordinances adopted or passed by the city council shall be inscribed at large by the city secretary, not only in the minutes of the council, but also in a special book to be kept for that purpose by the city secretary, and wherein at the foot of each ordinance so inscribed the city secretary shall make a note stating the time of the adoption of such ordinance. Such book of ordinances and all copies and extracts therefrom shall be evidence of the tenor and contents of the ordinances therein inscribed, as well of such as have been heretofore or as may be hereafter therein so inscribed.
(1964 Code, § 1-8)
Statutory reference:
Provisions of state law in regard to admission of printed codes in evidence, see Tex. Local Government Code § 53.006