Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-27
ORDINANCE NO. 1872
Coptavcho, "a 1909


An ordinance providing TO: the revision ard
publication OF the ordinances Of the CITY of
Dodge City. Kansas, and prescribing rules and
regulation for the enactment of the said ordi-
nances as revised.
Be it ordained by the mayor and councilmen of
Dodge City, Kansas.
SECTION !. The ordinances of the city of Dodge
City, Kansas, OF u general and permanent nature.
except rs herein provided, shall be revised and
published in pamphlet form in accordance with
the rules and regulations hereinafter prescribed
SEC. 2. The city attorney and the ordinance
committee are hereby authorized and required to
revise and arrange in convenient order, according
10 their best Judgement the ordinances Of said
city for the purpose of publication, except the fol-
lowing ordinances. Numbers providing for
the erection OF sidewalks; numbers, providing
for appropriations and tax levies number, pro-
vidiBg for street grades; number, providing
for electric lights and granting franchise for that
water works and granting franchise, and such
other ordinances not both permanent and
general in their nature.
The said ordinances as revised. shall be proper
ly ind xed. and the unpublished ordinances shall!
also be indrxed in the revision.
SEC. 3. In the revision OF the said ordinances
the city attorney and ordinance committee are
authorized to transpose and rearrange the sections
of any ordinance, the wording thereof. and
where two or more ordinances are in force upon
the same subject, they may be consolidated and
arranged into one ordinance, and any surplussage
omitted therefrom. Where any ordinance has
been amended without repeating the entire Ordi-
nance as amended, the ordinance amended and
the ordinance amending the same shall be incorp-
grated into one ordinance. Consolidated and
amended ordinances shall be numbered with the
lowest number belonging to said ordinances
SEC. L. After said ordinances shall have been
revised, arranged, consolidated and indexed, in
accordance with sections two and three of this ord
nance. proof sheets of the same shall be present
ed to the council. In the enactment of the Ordi-
nances as consolidated and revised, it shall not be
necessary to read or vote upon said ordinances
section by section. but they shall be read and
adopted or rejected a whole. Provided any
two members of the council shall have the right
to demand the adoption rejection of any ordi-
nance any section Of an ordinance which has
been consolidated, rearranged or in any manner
changed, by requiring the same to be read and
voted upon section by section in the usual manner.
Any ordinance or section of an ordinance revised,
consolidated, amended or changed in any manner
which shall not be enacted by the council accord
ing to the rules and regulations herein prescribed
shall Lot be published but the ordinance or sec
ton il now exists and is in force shall be pub
lished.
Ii shall not he necessary to attach Il separate
publication section to any ordinance published in
the revision, nor shall it be necessary for the
mayor and clerk 10 sign each ordinance separate.
At the end of the pamphlet of published ordi-
nances there shall be attached the usual certif-
cate of approval and the date of publication and
the clerk shall attach certificate under his hand
and tine seal of his office showing the date of the
enactment of the revised ordinances and that the
same were enacted in accordance with the rules
prescribed by this ordinance, which shall have
the same affect as though attached to each Ordi-
nance, in the revision.
IL shall not be necessary for the clerk to trans
cribe the revised ordinances as published in the
ordinance book but he shall in suitable manner
fasten copy thereof in said book and shall also
file an additional copy Of the same in bis Office
SEC. ). There is hereby appropriated out of the
general revenue fund OF the city of Dodge City the
sum Of one hundred dollars TO pay for revising and
publishing the ordinances in accordance with the
terms of this ordinance.
SEC. 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force on and after its publication once in the
Ford County Republican.
Passed the council Sept. 18th, 1888.
Attest GEO. +. JONES.
City Clerk.
Approved Sept. 18th, 1888.
r. W. TARBOX, Mayor.