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A. Subject to the general policies which may be promulgated by the Assembly for the preparation and publication of the regular supplements to this code, the Clerk shall revise for consolidation into this code all Borough ordinances of general applicability having the force and effect of law.

B. The Clerk shall edit and revise the ordinances for consolidation without changing the meaning of an ordinance in the following manner:

1. Renumber sections, parts of sections, articles, chapters, and titles;

2. Change the wording of section or subsection titles, or delete subsection titles, and change or provide new titles for articles, chapters, and titles;

3. Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity;

4. Substitute the proper designation for the terms “the preceding section,” “this ordinance,” and like terms;

5. Substitute the proper calendar date for “effective date of this ordinance,” “date of passage of this ordinance,” and other phrases of similar import;

6. Strike out figures if they are merely a repetition of written words, or substitute written words for figures;

7. Correct manifest errors which are clerical, typographical, or errors in spelling, or errors by way of additions or omissions;

8. Correct manifest errors in references to ordinances;

9. Rearrange sections, combine sections or parts of sections with other sections or parts of sections, divide long sections into two or more sections, and rearrange the order of sections to conform to a logical arrangement of subject matter as may most generally be followed in this code;

10. Change all sections, when possible, to read in the present tense, indicative mood, active voice and if the use of personal pronouns cannot be avoided in a section change the section to read in the third person and singular number, or any other necessary grammatical change in the manner generally followed in this code;

11. Delete or change sections or parts of sections if a deletion or change is necessary because of other ordinance amendments which did not specifically amend or repeal them;

12. Omit all titles to ordinances, all enacting and repealing clauses, all declarations of emergency, and all purpose, validity, and construction clauses unless, from their nature, it may be necessary to retain some of them to preserve the full meaning and intent of the ordinance.

C. The Clerk shall edit and revise the laws as they are adopted by the Assembly without changing the meaning of an ordinance so as to avoid the use of pronouns denoting masculine or feminine gender. (Ord. 86-071 § 2, 1986. 2004 Code § 1.03.100.)