§ 1-5. Amendments to Code.

(a)

All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code which amend, repeal or in any way affect any section or subsection of this Code shall be numbered consecutively, but shall refer specifically to the section or subsection affected, and printed for inclusion therein. When subsequent ordinances repeal any chapter, section or subsection or any portion thereof, such repealed portions shall be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages.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 as this Code and subsequent ordinances numbered or omitted are readopted as a new code by the city commission.

(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: "Section ____________ of the Code of the City of Helen, Georgia, is amended to read as follows:…." The new provisions shall then be set out in full.

(c)

If a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language shall be used: "Code of the City of Helen, Georgia, is amended by adding a new section to be numbered section ____________ , which section shall read as follows:…." The new section shall then be set out in full.

(d)

All sections, articles, chapters or provisions desired to be repealed shall be specifically repealed by section, article or chapter number in the following language: "Section (chapter or article) ____________ of the Code of the City of Helen, Georgia, is repealed."

(Code 1987, § 1-106)

Charter reference

Ordinance adoption, § 2.22.