(a) In conformance with K.S.A. 12-3014 and 12-3015, the Governing Body hereby authorizes by the adoption of Ordinance No. 20243 the recodification of ordinances of the City of Topeka, Kansas, as set out in TMC Titles 1 through 18 and the Appendices, and titled “The Code of the City of Topeka, Kansas, 2020,” is hereby adopted and ordained as “The Code of the City of Topeka, Kansas, 2020” (hereinafter the “Code”). Ordinance No. 20243 and the Code shall become effective when the City Clerk certifies that the Code, as published in book form, is a true and correct copy of the ordinances contained therein.

(b) Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to affect the validity of ordinances that are not codified in the Code.

(c) The arrangement and classification of the several titles, chapters, articles and sections of the Code adopted by subsection (a) of this section, and any head notes or footnotes or other references found in a section, are made for the purpose of convenience and orderly arrangement and do not constitute a part of the ordinances. Therefore, no implication or presumption of legislative intent or construction is to be drawn therefrom.

(d) If for any reason any title, chapter, article, section, subsection, sentence, portion or part of the Code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision will not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Code.

(e) The Code shall be published on the City’s website and the minimum number of copies of the published Code required by K.S.A. 12-3015, and amendments or supplements thereto, shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk and made available for inspection by the public during reasonable business hours. (Ord. 20243 § 1, 4-21-20.)