Codification of ordinances; publication of code

1. The city council or other governing body of an incorporated city shall have the power to codify and publish a code of its municipal ordinances in the form of a municipal code, which code may, at the election of the council or other governing body, have incorporated therein a copy of this chapter and such additional data as the council or other governing body may prescribe. When such a publication is published, two copies shall be filed with the librarian of the supreme court law library.

2. The ordinances in the code shall be arranged in appropriate chapters, articles and sections, excluding the titles, enacting clauses, signature of the mayor, attestations and other formal parts.

3. The codification shall be adopted by an ordinance which shall not contain any substantive changes, modifications or alterations of existing ordinances, and the only title necessary for the ordinance shall be “An ordinance for codifying and compiling the general ordinances of the City of ________”

4. The codification may, by ordinance regularly passed, adopted and published, be amended or extended.