Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS*

Section 1-4 Amendments to Code; effect of new ordinances; amendatory language.

    (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. In the case of repealed chapters, sections or subsections or any part thereof, by  subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from  reprinted pages affected thereby. 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 re-adopted 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 number of this Code in the following language:

"That section _________ of the Code of Thomasville, Georgia, is hereby amended  to read as  follows: . . . ." The new provisions shall then be set out in full.

    (c)    If a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language  shall be used: "That the Code of Thomasville, Georgia, is hereby amended by adding a section (or  article or chapter) to be numbered _________, which said section (or article or chapter) reads as  follows: . . . ." The new section (or article or chapter) shall then be set out in full.

    (d)    All sections, articles, chapters  or provisions desired to be repealed must be specifically  repealed by section, article or chapter number, as the case may be.

(Code 1958,  1-4)