Late to this conversation and simply clarifying a single point: “Commissioners of the Code”
The Legislature enacts Acts by majority approval of bills and or resolutions. The governor approves those Acts or his veto is overridden and they become laws.
These Acts are gathered in seriatim ... not according to topic or subject, as approved.
A code takes approved, enacted statutes (existing law) and assembles them topically (thus the “Political Code”)