Recording, Advertising and Proof of Ordinances; Codification of Ordinances

Section 1. Recording, Advertising and Proof of Ordinances; Codification of Ordinances.--No ordinance, or resolution of a legislative character, in the nature of an ordinance, shall be considered in force until the same is recorded in the ordinance book of the town and has been advertised as prescribed by law. All ordinances, or resolutions of a legislative character in the nature of an ordinance, may be proved by the certificate of the town secretary, under the town seal, and, when printed or published in book or pamphlet form and purporting to be published by the authority of the town, shall be read and received as evidence in all courts and places without further proof. All town ordinances shall, within one month after their passage, be recorded by the town secretary in a book provided for that purpose, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of citizens. The entry of the town ordinance in the ordinance book by the secretary shall be sufficient, without the signature thereto of the mayor or other person. Any and all town ordinances, or portions thereof, the text of which, prior to the effective date of this amendment, shall have been attached to the ordinance book, shall be considered in force just as if such ordinances, or portions thereof, had been recorded directly upon the pages of such ordinance book: Provided, That all requirements applicable to the enactment, approval, advertising and recording of such ordinances, or portions thereof, are complied with within the time limit prescribed by law.