§ 15-1-116 — Ordinances; publication required; exception; attestation; recodification or revision

(a) Every ordinance before becoming effective shall be
published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation,
which maintains a physical office at which advertisements are
accepted and which is open to the public during regularly set
business hours within the boundaries of the city or town. The
newspaper shall publish the ordinance within nine (9) days from
the date of receipt. If there is no such newspaper, the
ordinance shall be posted for at least ten (10) days in the city
clerk's office and in such other places as the governing body
determines. Emergency ordinances are effective upon
proclamation of the mayor, and as soon thereafter as is
practicable they shall be published and posted in the manner
required of other ordinances.
(b) Every ordinance, within a reasonable time after
passage, shall be signed by the mayor, attested by the clerk and
recorded in a book kept for that purpose. The attestation of
the clerk shall show that the ordinance was duly published and
posted.
(c) A recodification or revision of ordinances shall be
published by title only together with a brief summary of the
recodification or revision, in the manner provided in subsection
(a) of this section for newspaper publication, provided that a
copy of the recodification or revision shall be available to the
public at all reasonable hours in the office of the city or town
clerk.
(d) Ordinances adopted by the governing bodies of all
incorporated cities and towns prior to the effective date of
this act, which were posted for at least ten (10) days in the
city clerk's office and in such other places as the governing
body determined, are deemed to be in compliance with the
requirements of this section.