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Section 415. ORDINANCES: EMERGENCY. Any ordinance de- clared by the City Council to be necess ~a~y as an emergency measure for preserving the public peace, health,, or safety, and containing a statement of the reasons for its urgency, may be introduced and adopted at one and the same meeting Jf passed by at least four affirmative votes. Section 416. ORDINANCES: PUBLICATION. The Clerk of the Council shall cause each ordinance to be published at least once in the official newspaper within fifteen days after final adoption. Section 417. ORDINANCES: WHEN EFFECTIVE. Ne ordinance finally adopted under the provisions of this Charter shall become effec- tive until thirty days from and after the date of its final adoption except: (a) An ordinance calling or otherwise relating to an election; (b) An improvement proceeding ordinance adopted under some law or procedural ordinance; (c) An ordinance declaring the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, or fixing the rate of taxation, or levying the annual tax upon property; (d) An emergency ordinance adopted in the manner provided for in this Charter. All ordinances of any of the cla~sos heretofore excepted by this section shall take effect upon tho date of publication er posting. Section 418. ORDIhlANCES: AMENDMENT. The amendment of any section er sections of an ordinance may be accomplished solely by the re-enactment of such section or sections at length, as amended. Section 419. ORDINANCES: CODIFICATION. Any or all ordi- nances of the City which have been enacted and published in the manner required at the time of their adoption and which have not been repealed, may be compiled, consolidated, revised, indexed, and arranged in a comprehensive ordinance code, and such code may be adopted by reference by the passage of an ordinance for such purpose. Such code need not be published in the manner required for other ordi- nances, but not less than three copies thereof shall be filed for use and examination In the office of the Clerk of the Council prier to the adoption thereof; and, in lieu of the publication of the ordinance, there shall be published a notice in the official newspaper describing the ordinance in brief and in general terms and stating that the code is available for public inspection at the office of the Clerk of the Council, together with the time and place when and where it will be considered for final passage. Ordinances codified shall be repealed as of the effective date of the code. Subsequent amendments to sections of the code shall be enacted in the same manner as herein required for the amendment of ordinances generally. Detailed regulations pertaining to any subject such as the construc- tion of buildings, plumbing, wiring, or other subjects which require extensive regulations, aftE~r having been arranged as a comprehensive code, may likewise be adopted by reference in the manner provided in this section. Section 420. ORDINANCES: VIOLATION AND PENALTY. The t11--