Sec. 2-3. Rules and regulations.
(a) Publication. Proposed rules and regulations, as defined in section 1-2, shall be submitted to the attorney and shall be subject to approval for legality. Before becoming effective, such rules and regulations shall be published in accordance with either of the following methods; selection of the method to be followed to be made by the adopting authority:
(1) Publishing the rules and regulations in full as finally adopted once only in a newspaper of general circulation of the City.
(2) Filing a copy of the rules and regulations with the city clerk and one copy with the city attorney and one copy with the person authorized to make the rules and regulations; provided, however, if this method of publication is adopted, there shall be published by the adopting authority a notice stating that the filings have been made and setting forth dates of such filings. Such notice shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation.
(b) Public inspection. The adopting authority and the clerk shall make such rules and regulations available to public inspection at all reasonable times.
(c) Authority to adopt. No city officer, employee, agent, board or commission or member thereof shall have power or authority to adopt any rules or regulations save and except by and under the authority of specific provisions of statutes or ordinances of the City, setting forth the area and scope of rules and regulations permitted and specifying the person authorized to make rules and regulations.
(d) Notice of repeal. Notice of repeal of rules and regulations shall be published once in the official newspaper of the City.
(e) Enforcement. Rules and regulations may not be enforced except upon compliance with this section.
(f) Effectiveness of present rules. Nothing in subsection (e) of this section shall be interpreted, however, to nullify or limit the effectiveness of valid rules and regulations existing at the time of any recodification, but all such valid rules and regulations shall remain effective and enforceable, provided copies thereof are filed in the office of the attorney and with the clerk. (Code 1979, § 1-13; Ord. No. 95-53, exhibit A (§ 1-13), 9-11-1995)