Each ordinance adopted by the Common Council shall, if directed by the Council, be published by the Clerk-Treasurer in a newspaper of general circulation in the city and printed in the English language, in two publications, each one week apart, and each ordinance shall take effect in accordance with Indiana law, unless another date is later stated in the ordinance in which event it shall take effect upon the date so stated. Ordinances not requiring publication shall take effect upon the date of their adoption unless a different date is stated in the ordinance.
(Prior Code, § 1-7)