[Adopted 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and
Council of the Town of Rock Hall, Maryland, as follows:
The Charter, the ordinances and certain resolutions of the Town of Rock Hall, of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Rock Hall, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of the Charter and Chapters 1 through 118, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Rock Hall," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede
all other general and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment
of this Code, except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly
saved from repeal or continued in force.
All provisions of this ordinance of the Code
shall be in full force and effect on and after August 31, 1979.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been
filed in the office of the Town Clerk and shall remain there for use
and examination by the public until final action is taken on this
ordinance; and, if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall
be certified to by the Clerk of the Town of Rock Hall by impressing
thereon the seal of the town, and such certified copy shall remain
on file in the office of the Clerk of the town to be made available
to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said
Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the
intent of the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be
deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the
"Code of the Town of Rock Hall" shall be understood and intended to
include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments
or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf
book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Town of Rock Hall, pursuant
to law, shall cause to be published in the manner required a copy
of this adopting ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in
the town. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in the
office of the Clerk for inspection by the public at all times during
regular office hours. The enactment and publication of this adopting
ordinance, coupled with availability of copies of the Code for inspection
by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and
legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone
authorized and directed by him to keep up-to-date the certified copy
of the book containing the Code required to be filed in his office
for the use of the public. All changes in said Code and all ordinances
adopted subsequent to the effective date of this codification, which
shall be adopted specifically as part of the Code, shall, when finally
adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new
ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which
time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code
may be purchased from the Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set
by resolution of the Mayor and Council, who may also arrange, by resolution,
for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly
change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of
the Code or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever
which will cause the law of the Town of Rock Hall to be misrepresented
thereby. Any violation of this section shall be punishable as a misdemeanor,
the penalty for which shall be a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 30 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
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 section 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.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general
and permanent nature adopted and in force on the date of the adoption
of this ordinance and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed
as of the effective date of this adopting ordinance, except as hereinafter
provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to December 1977.
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision prior to the effective date of this
ordinance or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement
of such right or liability.
C.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision or
any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
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.
E.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred.
F.
Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening,
altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing of grade,
changing of name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way,
easement, street, road, highway, park or other public place, or any
portion thereof.
G.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or
transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money
or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments
or evidence of the town's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
J.
The dedication of property or approval of preliminary
or final subdivision plats.
K.
Ordinances establishing the amount and manner of payment
of salaries or compensation of officers and employees, establishing
workdays and working hours of certain employees and providing for
holidays and vacations for employees and keeping of employment records.
L.
Any legislation of the Town of Rock Hall relating
to soil or sediment control.
M.
Any legislation of the Town of Rock Hall pertaining
to zoning or subdivision of land.
N.
Any ordinance or legislation of the Town of Rock Hall
dealing with or pertaining to any sewer or water regulations or codification,
adopted before or after December 1977.
[Added 9-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1-13-N]
A.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption
and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes and
other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It
is the intention of the Mayor and Council that all such changes be
adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been
previously formally amended to read as such.
B.
In addition, the following changes, amendments or
revisions are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective
date of this ordinance. (Chapter and section number references are
to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appeared in the
1978 Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 1-14B, the following sections were added or amended: §§ 10-1, 10-2, 10-7, 10-11, 14-2A, B, C and F, 16-1, 34-1, 34-3A, 34-5, 34-6, 42-4A, B, E, F and G, 42-6C and D, 42-14, 53-1, 53-7, 65-7, 71-2, 77-4, 84-12, 90-6A(1), 90-13B, 90-15, 92-3, 100-2, 100-7C, 100-10B, 100-15, 100-17, 110-1B, 110-1C, 110-2, 110-3, 112-3A(12), C, D, E and F, 112-4A, 112-7C, D, E and F(3), 112-9, 115-3C, 115-4A, 115-6A, 115-8B(1), 115-11C and D, 115-12A and 115-17A, F, H, I, J and L. In addition, the following sections were deleted: original Sections 912e and 918, Subsection O, of Chapter 9 of the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Rock Hall, adopted 10-6-1977 by Ord. No. 26. A complete description of these changes is on file in the office of the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
