§ 1-5. Amendments to Code; effect of new ordinances; amendatory language.

(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. Repealed chapters, sections and subsections or any part thereof, by subsequent ordinances, may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages affected thereby. The subsequent ordinances as numbered and printed or omitted, in the case of repeal, shall be prima facie evidence of these subsequent ordinances until such time that this Code and subsequent ordinances numbered or omitted are readopted as a new Code.

(b)

Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code may be made by amending those provisions by specific reference to the section number of this Code in the following language:

"Section _____ of the Code of Ordinances, City of Atlanta, Georgia, is hereby amended to read as follows:…." The new provisions may 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 may be used:

"The Code of Ordinances, City of Atlanta, Georgia, is hereby amended by adding a section (or article or chapter) to be numbered _____, which section reads as follows:…." The new section may then be set out in full as desired.

(d)

All sections, articles, chapters or provisions desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section, article or chapter number, as the case may be, or by setting them out at length in the repealing ordinance.

(Code 1977, § 18-1006)

Charter reference

Ordinances generally, § 2-401 et seq.