No officer or employee of the city shall issue, mail or distribute, as a publication on the part of the city or any officer, department, bureau or branch of the city government, any book, pamphlet, leaflet, card, circular or other printed matter purporting to contain excerpts or quotations from the Metropolis City Code or purporting to give the law on any subject to the public, either as a reprint of a statute, ordinance or other legislative enactment or as a digest, interpretation, resume, condensation or explanation of the same, without submitting the book, pamphlet, leaflet, card, circular or other printed matter, or the portion of same, which purports to quote or give the law to the Corporate Counsel for examination and approval as to form and as to whether or not the law is correctly stated therein.
(1977 Code, § 1-1-8)