All ordinances and bylaws shall be signed by the town board and countersigned by the clerk; and, if any penalty or forfeiture is thereby imposed, shall be published as a Class 1 notice, under Chapter 985, and shall take effect on the day after its publication or a later date if expressly prescribed. If there is no newspaper published in the town, the town board may in lieu of newspaper publication have copies of ordinances and bylaws posted in at least three public places in the town and proof thereof filed and recorded by the town clerk, and the same shall take effect the day after the proof of posting has been filed and recorded, or at a later date if expressly provided in the ordinance or bylaw.
(Prior code § 2.11)
Whenever in this code any standard, code, rule, regulation or other written or printed matter is adopted by reference, it shall be deemed incorporated in this code as if fully set forth herein and the clerk shall file, deposit and keep in his office a copy of the code, standard, rule, regulation or other written or printed matter as adopted. Materials so filed, deposited and kept shall be public records open for examination with proper care by any person during the clerk’s office hours, subject to such orders or regulations which the clerk may prescribe for their preservation.
(Prior code § 25.03)