All ordinances enacted by the City Council imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture or making any appropriation shall (1) be printed in book or pamphlet form published by authority of the corporate authorities, or (2) published at least once, within ten days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the City. No such ordinances shall take effect until ten days after it is so published, except that an ordinance imposing a municipal retailer’s occupation tax or a municipal leasing occupation tax as provided by the Illinois Municipal Code or affecting a change in the rate thereof, shall take effect on the first day of the month next following the expiration of the ten day publication period. All other ordinances, resolutions and motions shall take effect upon their passage unless they otherwise provide. All ordinances and the date of publication thereof may be proved by the Certificate of the City Clerk under the seal of the City. Ordinances printed in book or pamphlet form as provided herein need not be otherwise published, and such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and publication thereof without further proof.
(Prior Code, Art. 1, § 1.3(h))