Sec. 1-6. - Amendments to Code.

(a)

All ordinances passed subsequent to the adoption of 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be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion therein, or in the case of repealed chapters, sections and subsections or any part thereof, by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission thereof from reprinted pages affected thereby, and the subsequent ordinances as numbered and printed or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 of ordinances by the city council.

(b)

Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code should be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the section of the Code in substantially the following language: "Section _____ of the Revised Ordinances, City of Central Falls, Rhode Island, is hereby amended to read as follows:…(set out new provisions in full)… ."

(c)

If a new section not then existing in the Code is to be added, the following language may be used: "The Revised Ordinances, City of Central Falls, Rhode Island, is hereby amended by adding a section (or article, chapter or other designation, as the case may be), to be numbered _____, which reads as follows:…(set out new provisions in full)… ."

(d)

In lieu of the foregoing subsection, when the city council desires to enact an ordinance of a general and permanent nature embracing a subject not previously existing in the Code, which the city council desires to incorporate into the Code, a provision in substantially the following language may be made a part of the ordinance: "It is the intention of the city council, and it is hereby ordained, that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made part of the Revised Ordinances, City of Central Falls, Rhode Island, and the sections of this ordinance may be renumbered to accomplish such intention."

(e)

All sections, articles, chapters or other provisions of this Code desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section number, article number, chapter or other number, as the case may be.

(Code 1994, § 1-6)