[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Greensburg: Art. I, 12-21-1994 as Ord. No. 1646. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-21-1994 as Ord. No. 1646]
Be it enacted and ordained by the City Council
of the City of Greensburg, county of Westmoreland, Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and it is enacted and ordained as follows:
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Pursuant to Article V of the City of Greensburg Home Rule Charter, the codification of a complete body of legislation for the City of Greensburg, County of Westmoreland, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through 236, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as a single ordinance of the City of Greensburg, which shall be known and is hereby designated as the "Code of the City of Greensburg," hereinafter referred to as the "Code." In accordance with Section 502 (published as §
C-25) of the City of Greensburg Home Rule Charter, "codification" shall be deemed to be one (1) subject.
The provisions of this Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and resolutions 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 City Council of the City of Greensburg, and it is the intention of said City Council that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reenacted and reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §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, and only new or changed provisions, as described in §
1-6 below, shall be deemed to be enacted from the effective date of this Code, as provided in §
1-15 below.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the City of Greensburg and in force on the date of the adoption of this Code and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date given in §
1-15 below, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal; provided, however, that the repeal of ordinances pursuant to §
1-3 or the saving from repeal of ordinances pursuant to this section shall not be construed so as to revive any ordinance previously repealed, superseded or no longer of any effect:
A. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to August 1, 1994.
B. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the city prior to the effective
date of this ordinance or any action or proceeding brought for the
enforcement of such right or liability or any cause of action acquired
or existing.
C. Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision of
the city 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
of the city.
E. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the city or any lawful contract,
obligation or agreement.
F. Any ordinance appropriating money or transferring
funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing
the issuance and delivery of any bond of the city or other instruments
or evidence of the city's indebtedness.
G. Any ordinance adopting an annual budget or establishing
an annual tax rate.
H. Any ordinance providing for the levy, imposition or
collection of special taxes, assessments or charges.
I. Any ordinance authorizing the purchase, sale, lease
or transfer of property or acquiring property by acceptance of deed,
condemnation or exercise of eminent domain.
J. Any ordinance annexing land to the city.
K. Any ordinance providing for requiring the construction
or reconstruction or opening of sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
L. Any ordinance or part of an ordinance providing for
laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening,
establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance or vacation
of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, sidewalk, park
or other public place or property or designating various streets as
public highways.
M. Any ordinance establishing water, sewer or other special
purpose districts and designating the boundaries thereof; providing
for a system of sewers or water supply lines; or providing for the
construction, extension, dedication, acceptance or abandonment of
any part of a system of sewers or water supply lines.
N. Any ordinance providing for the making of public improvements.
O. Any ordinance providing for the salaries and compensation
of officers and employees of the city or setting the bond of any officer
or employee.
P. Any ordinance concerning changes and amendments to
the Zoning Map.
Q. The Local Government Investment Trust Ordinance, Ord.
No. 1161, adopted 3-8-1982.
R. The Workers Compensation Trust Ordinance, Ord. No.
1568, adopted 1-11-1993.
S. Any legislation establishing fees.
All ordinances and resolutions of a general and permanent nature adopted subsequent to the date given in §
1-4A and/or prior to the date of adoption of this ordinance are hereby deemed to be a part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such ordinances and resolutions shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.
A. Nonsubstantive grammatical changes. In compiling and
preparing the ordinances and resolutions of the city for adoption
and revision as part of the Code, certain nonsubstantive grammatical
and style changes were made in one (1) or more of said ordinances
and resolutions. It is the intention of the City Council that all
such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances and
resolutions so changed had been previously formally amended to read
as such.
B. Substantive changes and revisions. In addition to the changes and revisions described above, the following changes and revisions of a substantive nature are hereby made to various ordinances and resolutions included in the Code. These changes are made to bring provisions into conformity with the desired policies of the City Council, and it is the intent of the City Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the legislation so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such. All such changes and revisions shall be deemed to be in effect as of the effective date of the Code specified in §
1-15.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances and
resolutions of the city for adoption and revision as part of the Code,
certain nonsubstantive grammatical and style changes were made in
one (1) or more of said ordinances and resolutions. It is the intention
of the City Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the
Code as if the ordinances and resolutions so changed had been previously
formally amended to read as such.
In interpreting and applying the provisions
of the Code, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for
the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and
general welfare. Where the provisions of the Code impose greater restrictions
or requirements than those of any statute, other ordinance, resolution
or regulation, the provisions of the Code shall control. Where the
provisions of any statute, other ordinance, resolution or regulation
impose greater restrictions or requirements, the provisions of such
statute, other ordinance, resolution or regulation shall control.
A. Chapter and Article titles, headings and titles of
sections and other divisions in the Code or in supplements made to
the Code are inserted in the Code and may be inserted in supplements
to the Code for the convenience of persons using the Code and are
not part of the legislation.
B. Editor's notes indicating sources of sections, giving
other information or referring to the statutes or to other parts of
the Code are inserted in the Code and may be inserted in supplements
to the Code for the convenience of persons using the Code and are
not part of the legislation.
[Amended 9-14-2015 by Ord. No. 2057]
Three (3) copies of the Code in a post-bound
volume shall be filed with the Ordinance Book in the office of the
City Administrator and shall remain there for use and examination
by the public. Upon adoption, such copies shall be certified to by
the City Administrator, as provided by law, and such certified copies
shall remain on file in the office of the City Administrator, available
to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said
Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as
to indicate the intention of the City 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 changes.
Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the
Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided
hereunder, inserted in the post-bound book containing said Code as
amendments and supplements thereto.
[Amended 9-14-2015 by Ord. No. 2057]
It shall be the duty of the City Administrator
or someone authorized and directed by him or her to keep up-to-date
the certified copies of the book containing the Code required to be
filed in the office of the City Administrator for the use of the public.
All changes in said Code and all legislation adopted by the City Council
subsequent to the effective date of this codification which the City
Council shall adopt specifically as part of the Code shall, when finally
adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new
legislation are printed as supplements to said Code books, at which
time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
[Amended 9-14-2015 by Ord. No. 2057]
The City Administrator, pursuant to law, shall
cause to be published in the manner required a notice of the introduction
and of the adoption of the Code in a newspaper of general circulation
in the city. The enactment and application of this ordinance, coupled
with the publication of the notices of introduction and adoption,
as required by law, and the 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 unlawful for anyone to improperly
change or amend, by additions or deletions, or to alter or tamper
with the Code or any part or portion thereof, in any manner whatsoever,
which will cause the law of the city to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section of this ordinance shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600.),
plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment thereof, by
imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days.
The provisions of this ordinance and of the
Code adopted hereby are severable, and if any clause, sentence, subsection,
section, Article, chapter or part thereof shall be adjudged by any
court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unconstitutional,
such judgment or decision shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation and application
to the clause, sentence, subsection, section, Article, chapter or
part thereof rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the
City Council that this ordinance and the Code would have been adopted
if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional clause, sentence, subsection,
section, Article, chapter or part thereof had not been included therein.
All provisions of this ordinance and of the
Code shall be in force and effect on and after January 1, 1995.
[During the process of codification, certain complete new ordinances were approved by the City Council for inclusion in the Code of the City of Greensburg. Such new ordinances are noted in the histories of individual chapters as "Adopted ... during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II." During the course of normal supplementation, specific dates of enactment will be inserted where pertinent in the histories of the individual chapters.
The enumeration below lists each chapter
affected by any such legislation adopted during codification. The
complete text of the new enactments is on file in the City offices
where it may be inspected during regular office hours.]
Chapter
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Adoption Date
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Legislation
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Ch. 249, Vehicles and Traffic
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12-21-1994
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Ord. No. 1647
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