(a) Each bill which proposes an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of this Code, and each bill which proposes an ordinance of a general and permanent nature suitable for inclusion in this Code though constituting new subject matter not therein contained, shall be drafted so as to specify the specific section numbers, subsection, etc., of this Code which are to be repealed or amended and, with respect to additions and to new subject matter, so as to provide appropriate chapter, article, section, etc, numbers therefor; and each amendment of and addition to this Code shall be set out in full, and appropriate chapter and article headings and sections catchlines shall be included.
(b) Upon the adoption of an ordinance to repeal, amend or add to any portion of this Code or to include new subject matter in this Code, the Recorder shall separate the several chapters, articles, sections, etc., of such ordinances and enter them in their proper places in each file copy of this Code and shall remove therefrom any portion so repealed or amended, and in the margin of each insertion in the file copies of this Code he shall note and initial the date of passage, effective date and number of the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 this Code pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be maintained by the Recorder 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 this Code shall, in the margin of each such item, be noted and initiated 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 The volume in which such repealed and amended items are to be included shall be known as the “Record of Repealed and Amended Portions of the Code of the Town of Winfield, West Virginia”, the purpose of which is to enable town officers and other persons interested to ascertain the status of this Code at any given time in the past.
(d) The requirements of subsection (b) of this section are in addition to the requirements that each ordinance, upon adoption, shall be included in the Record of Ordinances.
(Ord. 1981-82-04. Passed 6-6-82.)