§ 3-114. Codification of Ordinances.

(1)

The Council shall cause to be maintained a code of ordinances, hereinafter referred to as the "code," containing all of the ordinances of the City of general application which are appropriate for continuation as law. The code may consist of parts which may be published, bound, and distributed separately. The code shall be maintained by the Clerk of Council, or the Council may execute a contract for its maintenance by professional persons or organizations experienced in the revision and codification of ordinances or statutes.

(2)

The City Attorney shall direct the inclusion of ordinances in the code and shall direct the removal from the code of ordinances that have been declared unconstitutional or illegal by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final judgment or that are the subject of a permanent injunction. The City Attorney shall notify the Mayor and the Council of intended action pursuant to this paragraph, and such action shall become effective upon approval by a majority of the entire Council or, if no action is taken at the first or second regular meeting subsequent to its receipt of the notice of intended action, the City Attorney's action shall become effective on the Monday following the second regular Council meeting subsequent to receipt of the notice.

(3)

The Council may adopt or amend any standard code of technical regulation by reference thereto in an adopting or amending ordinance. The procedures and requirements governing such an adopting or amending ordinance shall be those as prescribed for ordinances generally, except that the adopting ordinance shall be construed to include copies of the codes of technical regulations referenced in the adopting ordinance, as if fully reproduced therein. A copy of each adopted code of technical regulations and the adopting ordinance and any amendment thereto shall be deposited with the Clerk of Council in accordance with Section 3-113(5) of this Charter. The adopted codes of technical regulations may be published separately from other sections of the code, in which event said codes shall be collectively referred to as the codes of technical regulations.

(4)

When the code, including the codes of technical regulations, or any general revision shall have been prepared, the Council shall cause copies of the same to be prepared and made available for public distribution and placed in the City Archives of the New Orleans Public Library. No ordinance approving such code or revision shall be adopted until ninety days have elapsed following the date on which the Council shall have noted in the official journal the availability of copies of such proposed code to the public, nor until compliance with all applicable state and municipal laws. The code and general revisions need not be printed in the official journal but the Council shall cause the code or revisions to be published, bound, and distributed as provided in this Section.

(5)

All proposed ordinances of general application introduced after approval of the code shall be adopted as amendments to the code and shall indicate the section numbers to be assigned to the text of such ordinances in the code.