1.05.100 Code of Ordinances.
(a) Each proposed ordinance shall be introduced in written form.
(1) Noncoded ordinances shall be maintained in a file by the City Clerk.
(2) If the proposed ordinance is an amendment to this Code, it shall contain the following language:
Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Saint Paul, Alaska, that the City Code of Ordinances is hereby amended to read as follows: ______.
The new provision shall then be set out in full.
In the event that a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language shall be used:
Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Saint Paul, Alaska, that the City Code of Ordinances be hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered, ______ which shall read as follows: ______.
The new section shall then be set out in full.
All sections, articles, chapters, or provisions which are to be repealed must be specifically repealed by chapter, section, or subsection number as the case may be.
(b) No ordinance shall be introduced and passed at the same meeting of the Council except an emergency ordinance.
(c) Each adopted ordinance shall be recorded by the City Clerk as part of the Code, and copies of all ordinances shall be made available to the public for inspection or distribution.
(d) All ordinances included in the City Code of Ordinances shall be assigned three-factor decimal section numbers as appropriate. The first number shall identify the title and shall be followed by a period; the second number, consisting of two digits, shall identify the chapter and shall be followed by a period; and the third number, consisting of three digits, shall identify the numerical sequence of the section within the chapter. (Enacted March 22, 2000)
(e) The City Clerk is designated as the revisor of ordinances. The revisor may edit and revise ordinances for consolidation in the City Code of Ordinances as follows; provided, that such edits and revisions do not change the meaning or legislative intent of any ordinance:
(1) Number or renumber sections, parts of sections, articles, chapters, and titles.
(2) Change the wording of section or subsection catchlines, or delete subsection catchlines, and change or provide new titles for articles, chapters, and titles.
(3) Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity.
(4) Substitute the proper designation for the terms “the preceding section,” “this ordinance,” and like terms.
(5) Substitute the proper calendar date for “effective date of this ordinance,” “date of passage of this ordinance,” and other phrases of similar import.
(6) Strike out figures, if they are merely a repetition of written words or vice versa, or substitute figures for written words or vice versa for the purpose of uniformity.
(7) Correct manifest errors which are clerical, typographical, or errors in spelling, or errors by way of additions or omissions.
(8) Correct manifest errors in reference to laws, ordinances, or other sections of the Code.
(9) Rearrange sections, combine sections or parts of sections with other sections or parts of sections, divide long sections into two or more sections, and rearrange the order of sections to conform to a logical arrangement of subject matter as may most generally be followed in the Code.
(10) Change all sections, when possible, to read in the present tense, indicative mood, active voice, third person, and singular number, or any other necessary grammatical change in the manner generally followed in the Code.
(11) Delete or change sections or parts of sections if a deletion or change is necessary because of other ordinance amendments which did not specifically amend or repeal them.
(12) Omit all temporary ordinances, all titles to ordinances, all enacting and repealing clauses, all declarations of emergency and all purpose, validity, and construction clauses unless, from their nature, it may be necessary to retain some of them to preserve the full meaning and intent of the ordinance.
(13) Edit pronoun usage so as to avoid references to masculine or feminine genders. (Enacted March 22, 2000)
(f) The reviser shall make recommendations to the Council concerning deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions in the Code and, at the direction of the Council, the Clerk shall draft, or cause to be drafted, ordinances for consideration by the Council to correct and remove deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions in City ordinances. (Enacted March 22, 2000)
(g) All official documents of the City may be placed in evidence in all courts by a copy thereof certified as a true copy by the City Clerk under the seal of the City.
(h) All ordinances or repealers shall be read at two Council meetings before becoming law. An ordinance or repealer of any sales tax ordinance shall be read at three consecutive Council meetings. The proposed ordinance or repealer, or a summary of it, will be posted in at least two public places along with a notice of time and place of the meeting. A public hearing on the ordinance shall be held no less than five days from the posting of that ordinance. A public hearing may be held at any of the meetings of the Council that post a reading of the ordinances.
(i) Notice of approved ordinances, or a summary of such ordinances, shall be posted by the City Clerk. [Code 1979 § 1.10.]