§ 1-10. Amendment to Code; effect of new ordinances; amendatory language.

(a)

All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code which amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code may be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion in this Code. When subsequent ordinances repeal any chapter, section or subsection or any portion thereof, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages. Any and all additions and amendments to this Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the council to make the additions and amendments a part hereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Code, so that a reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.

(b)

Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code shall be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the section of this Code in substantially the following language: "That section ____________ of the Code of Ordinances, City of Milledgeville, Georgia is hereby amended to read as follows:…. (Set out new provisions in full);daterule;."

(c)

When the council desires to enact an ordinance of a general and permanent nature on a subject not heretofore existing in the Code, which the council desires to incorporate into the Code, a section in substantially the following language shall be made a part of the ordinance:

"Section ____________ . It is the intention of the mayor and aldermen, and it is hereby ordained, that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Code of Ordinances, City of Milledgeville, Georgia, and the sections of this ordinance may be renumbered to accomplish such intention."

(d)

All sections, articles, chapters or provisions of this Code desired to be repealed shall be specifically repealed by section or chapter number, as the case may be.

(Code 1986, § 1-8)