All ordinances shall be presented in writing and no ordinance shall be amended in its passage as to change its general purpose. No ordinance shall be considered for final passage at the meeting at which it is introduced nor unless the same shall have been reported upon by a committee, but a reference committee may be dispensed with by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the members elected to the Council. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title; nor shall any ordinance be passed by the Council unless a majority of all the members elected to the Council shall concur therein by yeas and nays when the question is put upon its passage.
All ordinances passed by the Council shall be spread at large upon the minutes; and at the next regular meeting such ordinances shall be read in open Council, and the Mayor shall sign said minutes, when found correct or corrected, in the presence of the Council. The Council shall provide a well bound book in which shall be copied all ordinances in the order in which they are passed, which ordinance so copied shall be compared with the originals by the Mayor and shall be signed by him when found correct. Such book shall be indexed so as to show in brief form the substance of the ordinance. All copies thereof certified as hereinafter provided, shall be received by all courts and justices in this State as evidence. But the Council may adopt, by ordinance, properly designating and describing it, a Code of laws and ordinances, which when adopted shall be printed in book form, or it may be adopted as a whole after it is printed, and the said Code shall be and become the laws and ordinances of said City, and shall be received as such in all courts of this State, and the printed volumes published under the order of Council shall be so received as evidence of what is printed therein, till errors or omissions be affirmatively shown therein.