(a) The City Attorney shall prepare or cause to be prepared supplements to, or otherwise revise, the Codified Ordinances, noting the sections that have been repealed, generally updating the Codified Ordinances, and including, in his discretion, updated annotations of court decisions or citations to other laws.
(b) The City Attorney may make and enter into all contracts and execute, acknowledge and deliver all instruments necessary or incidental to the performance of his duties under this section, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for such purposes.
(c) In performing his duties and powers as Code revisor, the City Attorney shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of City Council, but he may:
(1) Renumber and rearrange sections or parts of sections;
(2) Transfer sections or divide sections so as to give distinct subject matters a separate section number, but without changing the meaning;
(3) Insert or change the wording of headnotes and catchlines;
(4) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or sections;
(5) Substitute the proper section or chapter number for the terms "this ordinance," "the preceding section," and the like;
(6) Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words and vice versa;
(7) Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity;
(8) Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors;
(9) Make any other purely formal or clerical changes in keeping with the purposes of the revision.
(d) The City Attorney shall omit all titles of ordinances, all enacting, resolving and repealing clauses, all appropriation measures, all temporary ordinances, all declarations of emergency, and all validity, declaration of policy and construction clauses, except when the retention thereof is necessary or desirable to preserve the full meaning and intent of City Council. (1975 Code Sec. 2-14, 2-14.1)