[Adopted 6-10-1986 as Ord. No. 5-1986]
The Code of the Township of Willistown, as introduced
in the Board of Township Supervisors at its regular public meeting
on February 25, 1986, be and the same hereby is adopted as the Code
of the Township of Willistown. Said Code is incorporated herein by
reference as fully as though set forth at length. From and after the
effective date hereof, said Code shall be the complete statement of
the general body of township ordinances, as the same may be supplemented,
revised and amended from time to time, subject to the following provision
concerning ordinances adopted on or after December 1, 1985.
All ordinances of the Township of Willistown
adopted on or before November 30, 1985, shall be and hereby are superseded
by the aforesaid Code. All ordinances of the Township of Willistown
adopted on or after December 1, 1985, shall be and hereby are incorporated
herein by reference as fully as though set forth at length and made
a part of the Code of the Township of Willistown as supplements, revisions
and/or amendments, as the case may be, to the aforesaid Code. All
ordinances adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Willistown Township
on or after December 1, 1985, shall be deemed to be amendments and
additions to the aforesaid Code, so that in the event of any inconsistency
between any ordinance adopted on or after December 1, 1985, and the
Code as introduced in the Board of Supervisors on February 25, 1986,
the terms of the ordinances adopted on or after December 1, 1985,
shall prevail and control.
The provisions of this Code, insofar as they
are substantively the same as those of ordinances in force immediately
prior to the enactment of this ordinance, are intended as a continuation
of such ordinances and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness
of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior
ordinance. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force
and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption, with the
intent 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repealed by the provisions of § 14 below, and only new or
changed provisions as appear in the Code as previously introduced
in the Board of Supervisors shall be deemed to be enacted from the
effective date of this ordinance.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general
and permanent nature 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 ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-4 above 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 §
1-4 above or the saving from repeal of ordinances pursuant to this section shall not be construed to revive any ordinance previously repealed, superseded or no longer of any effect:
A. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to December 1, 1985.
B. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the township 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 township 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 township.
E. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the township or any lawful contract,
obligation or agreement.
F. 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 of the township,
or other instruments or evidence of the township'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 township.
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, or 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 township or setting the bond of any
officer or employee.
This ordinance shall take effect five days after
adoption.
[During the process of codification, certain
complete new legislation was approved by the Board of Supervisors
for inclusion in the Code of the Township of Willistown. Such new
legislation is noted in the histories of individual chapters as "Adopted...
during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II." The
enumeration appearing below lists each chapter affected by any such
legislation adopted during codification.]
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Ch. 133, Vehicles and Traffic
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