Each measure of a general nature hereafter adopted, other than an ordinance of general application limited to a single occasion, shall, wherever practicable, be of a form re-enacting, revising, supplementing or amending an appropriate title, chapter or section of these Codified Ordinances. An ordinance when so adopted shall become part of these Codified Ordinances as though included in their original enactment, and shall repeal any previous section or sections intended to be repealed thereby.
(1978 Code § 31.20)