The ordinances and resolutions of the City of Scranton of a general
and permanent nature adopted by the City Council of the City of Scranton on
September 26, 1979, as the "1979 Codified Ordinances," as amended and supplemented,
are hereby readopted, revised, codified and consolidated into chapters, articles
and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and as renumbered to consist
of Chapters I through 445, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved,
adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the City of Scranton (1997),"
hereafter known and referred to as the "Code."
The following changes are hereby adopted as part of the process of republication:
A. The terms "Justice of the Peace" and "District Magistrate"
are hereby revised to refer to "District Justice."
One copy of the Code in a post-bound volume shall be filed with the
Ordinance Book in the office of the City Clerk and shall remain there for
use and examination by the public. Upon adoption, such copy shall be certified
to by the City Clerk, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain
on file in the office of the City Clerk, available to persons desiring to
examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk 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 Clerk 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 recodification 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.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions
or deletions, or to alter or tamper with the Code of 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 $600, plus cost of prosecution,
and, in default of payment thereof, imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days.
This ordinance and the 1997 Code shall become effective immediately
upon approval.
If any section, clause, provision or portion of this ordinance or any
ordinances contained herein shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect any other
section, clause or provision or portion of this ordinance so long as it remains
legally enforceable minus the invalid portion. The city reserves the right
to amend this ordinance or any portion thereof from time to time as shall
deem advisable in the best interest of the promotion of the purposes and intent
of this ordinance and the effective administration thereof.
This ordinance is enacted by the Council of the City of Scranton under
the authority of the Act of the Legislature, April 13, 1972, Act No. 62, known
as the "Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law," and any other applicable
law arising under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.