This Code shall be known as the "Downey Municipal Code," and it shall be sufficient to refer to said Code as the "Downey Municipal Code" in any prosecution for the violation of any provisions thereof. It shall also be sufficient to designate any ordinance adding to, amending, or repealing, said Code, or portions thereof, as an addition or amendment to, or a repeal of, the "Downey Municipal Code," or a portion thereof.
This record consists of all of the regulatory and penal and of certain of the administrative ordinances of the City of Downey.
This Code takes effect upon the effective date of the ordinance of the City Council of the City of Downey whereby this Code is adopted.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Code is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Code. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Code and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Not less than three copies of this Code shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the City Clerk. Additional copies shall be prepared in loose-leaf form and mounted to withstand heavy usage in such binders as the City Clerk may prescribe. Copies thereof shall be distributed as determined by the City Clerk.
Upon the adoption of any amendment or addition to said Code, or upon the repeal of any of its provisions, the City Clerk shall certify thereto. Duly certified copies of every ordinance making changes in such Code shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk in books for such purpose, duly indexed for ready reference.
The City Clerk shall prepare printed copies of such changes in the Code for insertion in the loose-leaf copies thereof. Every section of the Code so changed shall have printed thereon a notation of the ordinance number pursuant to which such change is adopted.
At least once yearly, the City Clerk shall cause the loose-leaf pages of said Code in which changes have been made, to be reprinted, including the notations as to the ordinance number pursuant to which such change is adopted, in order that at least once yearly the loose-leaf copies of such Code prepared for the use and convenience of the officers and employees of the City and the general public may be brought up to date.