(A) By contract or by town personnel, supplements to this code shall be prepared and printed whenever authorized or directed by the Town Council. A supplement to this code shall include substantive permanent and general parts of ordinances passed by the Town Council or adopted by initiative and referendum during the period covered by the supplement and all changes made thereby in this code. The pages of a supplement shall be so numbered that they will fit properly into this code and will, where necessary, replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete, and the new pages shall be so prepared that, when they have been inserted, this code will be current through the date of the adoption of the latest ordinance included in the supplement.
(B) In preparing a supplement to this code, all portions of this code which have been repealed shall be excluded from this code by the omission thereof from reprinted pages.
(C) When preparing a supplement to this code, the codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement) may make formal, non-substantive changes in ordinances and parts of ordinances included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them into a unified code. For example, the codifier may:
(1) Organize the ordinance material into appropriate subdivisions;
(2) Provide appropriate catchlines, headings and titles for sections and other subdivisions of this code printed in the supplement, and make changes in such catchlines, headings and titles;
(3) Assign appropriate numbers to sections and other subdivisions to be inserted in this code and, where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or other subdivision numbers;
(4) Change the words “this ordinance” or words of the same meaning to “this chapter”, “this article”, “this division” and the like, as the case may be, or to “sections to ” (inserting section numbers to indicate the sections of this code which embody the substantive sections or the ordinance incorporated into this code); and
(5) Make other non-substantive changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance sections inserted into this code; but, in no case, shall the codifier make any change in the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement or already embodied in this code.
(D) The publisher, editor or codifier 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 to preserve the full meaning and intent of the law. Whenever any validity, declaration of policy or construction clause is omitted, proper notation of the omission may be made.