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Sec. 1-9. - Amendments to Code.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of Scituate, RI.

Local law · Updated January 8, 2004 · 584 sections

The text

(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be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion herein, or in the case of repealed chapters, sections and subsections, or any part thereof, by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission thereof from reprinted pages affected thereby, and the subsequent ordinances, as numbered and printed, or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 by the town 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: "That section ;#rule; of the Code of Ordinances, Town of Scituate, Rhode Island, is hereby amended to read as follows: ____________ (Set out new provisions in full) ____________."

(c)

In the event a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language may be used: "That the Code of Ordinances, Town of Scituate, Rhode Island, is hereby amended by adding a section (or article, chapter or other designation, as the case may be), to be numbered ;#rule;, which reads as follows: ____________ (Set out new provisions in full) ____________."

(d)

All sections, articles, chapters or other provisions of this Code desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section number, article number, chapter number or other number, as the case may be.