Section 99-05 Adopting Ordinance.

An Ordinance Adopting and Enacting a New Code of Ordinances of the City of Columbia, Missouri; Establishing the Same; Providing for the Repeal of Certain Ordinances Not Included Therein, Except as Herein Expressly Provided; Providing for the Manner of Amending Such Code of Ordinances; Providing a Penalty for the Violation Thereof; and Providing When this Ordinance Shall Become Effective.

Section 1. The Code of Ordinances, consisting of Chapters 1 to 29, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "Code of Ordinances, City of Columbia, Missouri," which Code shall be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all other general and permanent ordinances of the city passed on or before March 4, 1985, to the extent provided in section 2 hereof.

Section 2. All provisions of such Code shall be in full force and effect from and after January 1, 1986, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Columbia enacted on final passage on or before March 4, 1985 and not included in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein, are hereby repealed from and after the 1st day of January, 1986, except as hereinafter provided. No resolution of the city, not specifically mentioned, is hereby repealed.

Section 3. Whenever in such Code an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor by the city council or whenever in such Code the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful by the city council and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions of such Code shall be punished as provided in section 1-8 of such Code.

Section 4. Any and all additions and amendments to such Code, when passed in the form as to indicate the intention of the city to make the same a part of such Code, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code, so that reference to the "Code of Ordinances, City of Columbia, Missouri," shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.

Section 5. In case of the amendment by the city council of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty, as provided in section 1-8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended, or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.

Section 6. A copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk, preserved in looseleaf form or in such other form as the city clerk may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the city clerk or someone authorized by such officer, to insert in their designated places all amendments and all ordinances or resolutions which indicate the intention of the city council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which from time to time may be repealed by the city council. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.

Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any person to change or alter by additions or deletions, any part or portion of such Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City of Columbia to be misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this section shall be punished as provided in section 1-8 of the "Code of Ordinances, City of Columbia, Missouri."

/s/ Launa H. Daniel City Clerk	/s/ Rodney D. Smith Mayor and Presiding Officer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
/s/ David E. Evans City Counselor