§ 1-7. Amendments or additions to Code.

(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 When subsequent ordinances repeal any chapter, section or subsection or any portion thereof, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages. The subsequent ordinances as numbered and printed, or omitted in the case of repeal, shall be prima facie evidence of such subsequent ordinances until such time that this Code and subsequent ordinances numbered or omitted are readopted as a new Code by the city council.

(b)

Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code shall be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the section number of this Code in the following language: "That section _______ of the Code of Ordinances, City of Gainesville, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows: …." The new provisions shall then be set out in full as desired.

(c)

If a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language shall be used: "That the Code of Ordinances, City of Gainesville, Texas, is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered _______, which section reads as follows:…." The new section shall then be set out in full as desired.

(d)

Any and all additions and amendments to such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the city council to make the same a part of such Code, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code, so that reference to such Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.

(Code 1970, § 1-4)