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When the municipality or parish governing authority adopts the code, new laws, by-laws, or ordinances shall be in the form of amendments to the code.  In the adoption of the code it shall not be necessary to promulgate the entire code or body of laws, but the same shall be considered as having been legally and properly promulgated when the title thereof has been published for once a week for three consecutive weeks in the official journal of the municipality or parish.  All subsequent amendments to the code shall be published in the manner that ordinances are required to be promulgated by the charter of the municipality or parish governing authority.

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 61, §2; Acts 1975, No. 635, §1.