(a) Each bill which proposes an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of the Codified Ordinances, and each bill which proposes an ordinance of a general and permanent nature suitable for inclusion in the Codified Ordinances through constituting a new subject matter not therein contained, may be drafted so as to specify the specific section numbers, subsections, etc., of the Codified Ordinances which are to be repealed or amended and, with respect to additions and to new subject matter, so as to provide appropriate chapter, article, section, etc., numbers therefor. Each amendment of, and addition to, the Codified Ordinances may be set out in full and appropriate chapter and article headings and section catchlines may be included. Should an Ordinance add a provision to the Codified Ordinances which does not specifically provide a section number, it shall be assigned as Section 200. Each additional Ordinance adding a provision to the Codified Ordinances but not specifically providing a section number shall be assigned a section number sequently (i.e. the next assigned Ordinance will be Section 201, etc.).
(b) Upon the adoption of an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of the Codified Ordinances, or to include new subject matter in the Codified Ordinances, the City Clerk shall separate the several chapters, articles, sections, etc., of such ordinance and enter them in their proper places in each file copy of the Codified Ordinances and shall remove therefrom any portion so repealed or amended, and in the margin of each insertion in the file copies of the Codified Ordinances he shall note and initial the date of passage, effective date and number of the amending or repealing ordinance.
(c) Items removed from the file copies of the Codified Ordinances pursuant to subsection (b) hereof, shall be maintained by the City Clerk in a separate, loose-leaf volume, arranged properly according to their respective chapters, articles, sections, etc., and each item so removed from the file copies of the Codified Ordinances shall, in the margin of each such item, be noted and initialed by him to show the effective date and the number of both the enacting and repealing or amending ordinances. The volume in which such repealed and amended items are to be included shall be known as the "Record of Repealed and Amended Portions of the Code of the City of Princeton, West Virginia," the purpose of which is to enable City officers and other persons interested to ascertain the status of the Codified Ordinances at any given time in the past.
(d) The requirements of subsection (b) hereof are in addition to the requirement that each ordinance, upon adoption, shall be included in the Ordinance Book and in the journal of City Council. (Passed 6-12-17)