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The code review commission shall:

A. Examine Haines Borough Code, Alaska Statutes and judicial decisions to discover defects, anachronisms, inconsistencies and redundancies in the code.

B. Review and consider proposed changes in the code recommended by model municipal codes, the National League of Cities, the publisher of the borough code, and principal departments, agencies, boards, and commissions of the Haines Borough.

C. Receive and consider suggestions from the district court, public officials, organizations, and individuals as to areas of code needing review and possible remedy.

D. Recommend changes in code needed to eliminate antiquated, overly complicated, unnecessary and inadequate provisions and to bring the code into harmony with current needs and conditions, consistent with principles outlined in the Haines Borough Charter.

E. Submit reports and recommendations, and draft ordinances as to revision of code, to the assembly and the borough manager. Each draft submitted by the commission may be accompanied by a sectional analysis. The commission shall prepare any sectional analysis using language that is understandable to a layman.

F. With borough manager approval, the commission may request from borough staff the information and documents the commission considers necessary to the accomplishment of its work. (Ord. 18-03-490 § 4; Ord. 16-05-435 § 4)