At least once every five years, a city shall compile a code of ordinances containing all of the city ordinances in effect, except grade ordinances, bond ordinances, zoning ordinances, and ordinances vacating streets and alleys.
If a proposed code of ordinances contains only existing ordinances edited and compiled without change in substance, the council may adopt the code by ordinance.
If a proposed code of ordinances contains a proposed new ordinance or amendment, the council shall hold a public hearing on the proposed code before adoption. The clerk shall publish notice of the hearing as provided in section 362.3. Copies of the proposed code of ordinances must be available at the city clerk's office and the notice must so state. Within thirty days after the hearing, the council may adopt the proposed code of ordinances which becomes law upon publication of the ordinance adopting it. If the council substantially amends the proposed code of ordinances after a hearing, notice and hearing must be repeated.
Ordinances and amendments which become effective after adoption of a code of ordinances may be compiled as supplements to the code, and upon adoption of the supplement by resolution, become part of the code of ordinances.
An adopted code of ordinances is presumptive evidence of the passage, publication, and content of the ordinances therein as of the date of the clerk's certification of the ordinance adopting the code or supplement.
[R60, § 1133; C73, § 492; C97, § 686, 687; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5720, 5721, 5721-a1; C39, § 5720, 5721, 5721.1; C46, 50, § 366.7--;366.9; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 366.7; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 380.8]
Referred to in § 331.302, 380.10, 622.62
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