[Adopted 4-25-1995 as L.L.
No. 4-1995]
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the City of Gloversville, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of the Charter and Chapters
1 through
300, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the City of Gloversville," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions contained in the "Code of the City of Gloversville" to any other local law, ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, Article number or section number where such legislation appears in the Code, as if such local law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws, ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law, are intended as a continuation of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law, ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Common Council of the City of Gloversville, 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. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §
1-3 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the
City of Gloversville in force on the date of the adoption of this local law
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therein are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this local
law.
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in §
1-3 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, 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 City of Gloversville prior to the effective
date of this local law 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 local law in violation of any legislative provision of the City
of Gloversville 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 local
law brought pursuant to any legislative provision of the City of Gloversville.
D. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the City of Gloversville.
E. Any local law or ordinance of the City of Gloversville
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 City of Gloversville or any portion thereof.
F. Any local law or ordinance of the City of Gloversville
appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of the City
of Gloversville or other instruments or evidence of the city's indebtedness.
G. Local laws or ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale,
lease or transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
H. The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The annexation or dedication of property.
J. Any legislation relating to salaries or employee benefits.
K. Any local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. Any legislation adopted subsequent to December 20, 1994.
M. The Purchasing Policies and Procedures Manual adopted September 22, 1987 by Res. No. 87-130, effective September 22, 1987 (see Ch.
53, Purchasing).
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, Article, chapter or part
of this local law or of any local law, ordinance or resolution included in
this Code now or through supplementation shall be adjudged by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation
to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, Article, chapter or part thereof
directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been
rendered.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed in the office
of the City Clerk of the City of Gloversville and shall remain there for use
and examination by the public until final action is taken on this local law;
and, if this local law shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by
the City Clerk of the City of Gloversville by impressing thereon the Seal
of the City of Gloversville, and such certified copy shall remain on file
in the office of said City Clerk to be made available to persons desiring
to examine the same during all times while the said Code is in effect. The
enactment and publication of this local law, coupled with the availability
of a copy 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.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of
the local laws, ordinances and resolutions known collectively as the "Code
of the City of Gloversville" or any new local laws, ordinances or resolutions,
when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Common
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 local law shall affect the status of any local law,
ordinance or resolution contained herein, and such local laws, ordinances
or resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the
Common Council deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing the Code of the City of Gloversville required
to be filed in the office of the City Clerk for use by the public. All changes
in said Code and all local laws, ordinances and resolutions adopted by the
Common Council subsequent to the enactment of this local law in such form
as to indicate the intention of said Common Council to be a part of said Code
shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment
of copies of such changes, local laws, ordinances or resolutions until such
changes, local laws, ordinances or resolutions are printed as supplements
to said Code book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the City Clerk of the City
of Gloversville upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Common
Council, which Council may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the
periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the City Clerk, changes or
amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the
City of Gloversville or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner
whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the City of Gloversville to
be misrepresented thereby or who violates any other provision of this local
law shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment
for a term of not more than fifteen (15) days, or both.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article
I of Chapter
1 of the Code of the City of Gloversville, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article
I, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§
1-1 to
1-13, inclusive.
This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary
of State of the State of New York.