(A) Each bill which proposes an ordinance to repeal or amend any portion of this code and each bill which proposes an ordinance of a general and permanent nature suitable for codification herein, although constituting new subject matter not then contained herein, shall be drafted so as to show the specific section numbers, division designations, and the like, of this code which are to be repealed or amended, and, with respect to additions and to new subject matter, so as to provide appropriate chapter, subchapter, section and the like, numbers therefor;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 the ordinance and enter them in their proper places in each file copy of this code and shall remove therefrom those portions so repealed or amended, and in the margin of each insertion in the file copies of this code he or she shall note and initial the date of passage, effective date, manner and date of publication and number of the amending or repealing ordinance.
(C) Items removed from the file copies of this code pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be maintained by the City Clerk in a separate, loose leaf volume, arranged properly according to their respective chapters, subchapters, sections and the like, and each item so removed from the file copies of this code shall, in the margin of each item, be noted and initialed by him or her to show the effective date and the number of both the newly enacted ordinance and the ordinance thereby amended or repealed. The volume in which the repealed and amended items are to be included shall be known as the “Record of Repealed and Amended Portions of the Code of the City of Le Sueur, Minnesota,” the purpose of which is to enable the City Clerk and other persons interested to ascertain the status of this code at any given time in the past.
(D) The requirements of division (B) of this section are in addition to the requirement that each ordinance, upon adoption, shall be included in the record of ordinances.
(1973 Code, § 2-14)
Charter reference:
Amendment and repeal of ordinances generally, see Charter § 3.10