[CC 1999 §2-61]
All ordinances hereafter passed by the City Council shall have
a title indicating the nature and object thereof.
[CC 1999 §2-62]
The style of ordinances of the City shall be: "Be it ordained
by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Chillicothe, Missouri",
but may be entitled, when the ordinances are published in book or
pamphlet form, as prescribed by ordinance.
[CC 1999 §2-63]
Every ordinance imposing a fine, penalty or imprisonment or
forfeiture for violation shall, after passage thereof, be published
in the official newspaper of this City and proof thereof by the affidavit
of the printer or publisher of such newspaper taken before any officer
authorized to administer oaths and filed with the City Clerk, or any
other competent proof of such publication shall be conclusive evidence
of the legal publication and promulgation of such ordinance in all
courts and places.
[CC 1999 §2-64]
A.
The
City Council may from time to time provide for the compilation, revision
or codification of the general and permanent ordinances of the City
and the publication in book form thereof and may provide for keeping
the same up-to-date by supplements to permanently bound books or by
insertion of amending or new ordinances in looseleaf binders.
B.
For
the purposes of this Section, the word "codification" shall include the compilation of ordinances, the changing of such
Sections as are deemed advisable, the omission of such Sections as
are deemed unnecessary and the addition of new provisions as desired;
the passing of changed and new provisions may be according to subject
matter as separate ordinances or the adopting of the whole by an adopting
ordinance and publication in permanently bound or looseleaf book.
C.
The
penalties for the violation of any provision of such codification
shall be as set forth in the adopting ordinance and in such codification.
D.
All
ordinances passed by the City Council shall be in force from and after
passage thereof unless it be otherwise provided.
[CC 1999 §2-65]
All ordinances passed by the City Council and requiring publication
shall be in force from and after publication thereof unless it be
otherwise provided. Ordinances not requiring publication shall take
effect and be in force from and after their passage, unless it shall
therein otherwise be provided expressly.
[CC 1999 §2-66; Ord. No. 90-33, 10-29-1990]
The City Clerk shall forthwith file in his/her office all the
original ordinances which have been passed and approved by the Mayor
and City Council and shall file and maintain the same in the office
of the Clerk. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to see that all
ordinances requiring publication be published in the official newspaper
of the City and shall note said date of publication on the original
ordinance kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
