After passage by the Council each ordinance and resolution shall be authenticated by the signatures of the President of Council and City Clerk and recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Within ten days after passage each ordinance and resolution, except ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing an investigation of City affairs and resolutions requesting information from City officers or directing administrative action, and all appropriation ordinances shall be published in such manner as may be provided by ordinance, but if newspaper publication be specified then each such ordinance and resolution shall be published once in a newspaper printed, and of general circulation, in the City. The publication authorized by Council in book form of any codification, revision or rearrangement of ordinances passed by the Council, if such book contain the certificate of the Mayor and City Clerk of the correctness thereof, shall be deemed sufficient publication of the ordinance, or several ordinances, contained therein; and any such book so published and certified shall be received as evidence in any court for the purpose of proving the ordinance or ordinances therein contained. (Amended 11-5-02; 11-8-11)
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