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 Ocala
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

  § 1-11. Amendments to Code; effect of new ordinances; amendatory language.

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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 in the Code. When subsequent ordinances repeal any chapter, section or subsection or any portion thereof, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages.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 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 shall be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the section or subsection number, or paragraph of a section or subsection number, of this Code in substantially the following language: "That section (subsection) (paragraph of section or subsection) _______ of the Code of Ordinances, City of Ocala, Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows: _______." The new provisions may then be set out in full as desired.

    (c)

    If a new section, subsection or paragraph of a section or subsection not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language shall be used: "That the Code of Ordinances, City of Ocala, Florida, is hereby amended by adding a section (subsection) (paragraph of section or subsection) to be numbered _______, which section (subsection) (paragraph of section or subsection) reads as follows: _______." The new section, subsection, or paragraph of section or subsection may then be set out in full as desired.

    (d)

    All sections, subsections, articles, chapters or other provisions desired to be repealed may be specifically repealed by section, subsection, paragraph of section or subsection, article or chapter number.

(Code 1961, § 1-7; Code 1985, § 1-11; Ord. No. 2634, § 1, 8-6-96; Ord. No. 2743, § 2, 7-1-97)