(A) All words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words and phrases and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law shall be construed and understood according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.020)
(B) (1) The City Clerk, in preparing editions of the ordinances or supplements thereto for publication or distribution, shall not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any act of the city legislative body, but may renumber sections and parts of sections of the acts of the city legislative body; change the wording of head notes; divide or rearrange sections and parts of sections; change words when directed by law; change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or sections, or to make corrections in reference numbers when sections referred to are repealed or amended and the correction can be made without change in the law; substitute the proper section or chapter numbers for the terms “this ordinance,” “the preceding section,” and the like; strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words; change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity; and correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.
(2) In any edition of this code or supplement thereto hereafter published, the City Clerk may substitute the name of any agency, officer, or instrumentality of the commonwealth or of a political subdivision whose name is changed by law or to which powers, duties, and responsibilities have been transferred by law, for the name which the agency, officer, or instrumentality previously used or of the agency which was previously vested with the same powers and charged with the same duties and responsibilities.
(2008 Code, § 1.04.100)