[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Louisa 5-28-1981 as Ch. 2, Art. II, Div. 4, of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
An ordinance or resolution of the Town Council may be read and adopted or rejected at any particular meeting of the Town Council. More than one reading shall not be necessary for the adoption of any ordinance or resolution. If the ordinance or resolution before the Town Council is adopted, such ordinance or resolution shall become effective at such time as may be specified therein, but if no time is so specified, such ordinance or resolution shall become effective immediately.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
No ordinance shall be amended, suspended or repealed unless and except by ordinance regularly introduced, in writing, and passed.
When an ordinance which has repealed another shall itself be repealed, the previous ordinance shall not be revived without express words to that effect.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former § 20-4 of the 2002 republication of the Code, Numbering of ordinances, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The Town Clerk shall enter in a book copies of all ordinances passed by the Town Council. The book in which ordinances are thus entered shall be known as the "Ordinances at Large of the Town of Louisa, Virginia" and shall be indexed.
The Town Clerk shall write on the first page of every ordinance entered in the book mentioned in the preceding section, if the same has been amended or repealed, as the case may be, the words "amended" or "repealed," with a reference to the page of the ordinance book where the amending or repealing ordinance can be found.