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(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be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion herein, or, in the case of repealed chapters, sections and subsections or any part thereof by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission thereof from reprinted pages affected thereby, and the subsequent ordinances as numbered and printed or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 of ordinances 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 ___ of the Code of Ordinances, Town of West Warwick, 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 West Warwick, 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 subsection (c) of this section, when the town council desires to enact an ordinance of a general and permanent nature embracing a subject not previously existing in the Code, which the town 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 town council and it is hereby ordained that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made part of the Code of Ordinances, Town of West Warwick, 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All sections, articles, chapters or other provisions of this Code desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section number, article number, chapter number or other number, as the case may be.
(Code 1970, § 1-6)