(a)      For the purpose of providing ready access to a current compilation of the municipal corporation's ordinances, the mayor and city council (by whatever name known) of each municipal corporation in the State subject to Article XI-E of the Constitution of Maryland, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall provide annually (if the municipal corporation during the past year has enacted any ordinances appropriate for codification) for the editing, preparation, publication, and sale or other distribution of a supplement to its most recent code of ordinances, or of a new edition of the code.

      (b)      A supplement shall contain all public ordinances of general application and continuing force which for the municipal corporation are in effect and have been enacted or amended since publication of the most recent code of public ordinances; and a new code shall contain all public ordinances of general application in effect for the municipal corporation at the time of publication. A supplement or a code need not contain ordinances of less than general application and continuing force, including (without limitation) the budget ordinance.

      (c)      For the purposes of this section, an ordinance is any legislative enactment (by whatever name known) of general application and continuing force for the municipal corporation, other than a public local law referred to in § 32A of Article 25 of this Code.

      (d)      Each municipal corporation shall levy and appropriate its public funds for expenditures necessary under this section.