(1) The Council shall, within three years of the effective date of this Charter and at least every ten years thereafter, cause to be prepared a code with an adequate index containing all of the ordinances of the City of general application which are appropriate for continuation as law. Such code may be prepared by the City Attorney, or Council may contract for its preparation by professional persons or by organizations experienced in the revision and codification of ordinances or statutes.
(2) When the code, or any general revision of the whole or part thereof, shall have been prepared, the Council shall cause copies of the same to be prepared and made available for public distribution. No ordinance approving such code or revision shall be adopted until ninety days have elapsed following the date on which the Council shall have noted in the official journal the availability of copies of such proposed code to the public, nor until compliance with all applicable State laws. The code and general revisions of the whole or parts thereof need not be printed in the official journal, but the Council shall cause the code or revisions to be published and distributed.
(3) All ordinances of general applications, adopted after the approval of the code, shall be adopted as amendments to the Code shall indicate the section numbers to be assigned to the text of such ordinances in the code and shall be indexed accordingly.
(4) Until such code is prepared, adopted and distributed, the City Clerk shall make available upon request to any person requesting it, at a cost to be fixed by Council, copies of all effective City ordinances and all ordinances which may be subsequently adopted.
(5) Council shall provide on or before March 31 of each year for the preparation, publication and sale to the general public of an annual collation of all changes in the City Code. Council shall immediately upon adoption of this paragraph, provide for the collation of all rules and regulations of the City then in force, their publication and sale to the public. Thereafter Council shall provide annually for the collation of all changes in and deletions to such rules and regulations during the prior year and the publication and sale of separate parts of such rules and regulations to the general public in such parts and portions, by subject matter as Council shall determine. (Amended 10-15-85.)