The City Clerk shall cause all ordinances imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, to be printed or published in book or pamphlet form, or to be published at least once, within 30 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the city, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the city. If there is an error in printing, the publishing requirement shall be satisfied if those portions of the ordinance that were erroneously printed are republished, correctly, within 30 days after the original publication that contained the error. The fact that an error occurred in publication shall not affect the effective date of the ordinance so published. If the error in printing is not corrected within 30 days after the date of the original publication that contained the error, as provided in the preceding sentence, the City Council may by ordinance declare the ordinance that was erroneously published to be nevertheless valid and in effect no sooner than the tenth day after the date of the original publication, notwithstanding the error in publication, and shall order the original ordinance to be published once more within 30 days after the passage of the validating ordinance.
(Ord. 1122, passed 1-3-2000)
Statutory reference:
See similar provisions, ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2-4