[Adopted 2-17-2005, effective 3-16-2005]
In accordance with § C4-10 of the Charter of the Town of Glocester, the ordinances and policies of the Town of Glocester, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of the Home Rule Charter and Chapters 1 through 406, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the “Code of the Town of Glocester,” hereafter termed the “Code.” Wherever reference is made in any of the ordinances and policies contained in the “Code of the Town of Glocester” to any other ordinance or policy appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such ordinance or policy had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the 2004 Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and policies and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Town Council of the Town of Glocester, and it is the intention of said Council that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code, except as specifically modified, amended or repealed. Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature
of the Town of Glocester in force on the date of the adoption of this
ordinance and not contained in such Code or recognized and continued
in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the
effective date of this ordinance.
The repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect the following classes of ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the Town of Glocester prior to
the effective date of this ordinance or any action or proceeding brought
for the enforcement of such right or liability.
B.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision of
the Town of Glocester or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which
may result therefrom.
C.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other
proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective
date of this ordinance brought pursuant to any legislative provision
of the Town of Glocester.
D.
Any agreement entered into or any franchise, license,
right, easement or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by the
Town of Glocester.
E.
Any ordinance of the Town of Glocester providing for
the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening,
establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance or vacation
of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, park or other
public place within the Town of Glocester or any portion thereof.
F.
Any ordinance of the Town of Glocester appropriating
money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of the
Town of Glocester or other instruments or evidence of the Town's indebtedness.
G.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
H.
The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I.
The annexation or dedication of property.
J.
Any ordinance relating to salaries and compensation.
K.
Any ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L.
Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension
plan or pension fund for Town employees.
M.
Any ordinance or portion of an ordinance establishing
a specific fee amount for any license, permit or service obtained
from the Town.
N.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to 11-2-2004.
Each section of the Code and every part of each
section is an independent section or part of a section, and the holding
of any section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent
section, and the holding of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to any of the ordinances known collectively as the
“Code of the Town of Glocester” or any new ordinances
or policies, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the
intention of the Town Council to be a part thereof, shall be deemed
to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code shall
be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or
supplements to the Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf
book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing
contained in this ordinance shall affect the status of any ordinance
or policy contained herein, and such ordinances or policies may be
amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the Town Council
deems desirable.
