The local laws, ordinances and resolutions of the Village of Lancaster referred to in §
1-2 of this article shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Lancaster," hereafter termed the "Code," and the various parts and sections of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions shall be distributed and designated as provided and set forth in §
1-2 of this article.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and permanent nature
of the Village of Lancaster, 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continued in force by reference therein, are hereby repealed from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, resolutions, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal.
A. Any
right of liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative
provision of the Village of Lancaster prior to the effective date
of this local law, or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement
of such right or liability.
B. An
offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this
local law in violation of any legislative provision of the Village
of Lancaster, 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 Village
of Lancaster.
D. Any
franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred by the Village of Lancaster.
E. Any
local law, ordinance or resolution of the Village of Lancaster 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 Village of Lancaster, or any portion thereof.
F. Any
ordinance or resolution of the Village of Lancaster appropriating
money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of the
Village of Lancaster, or other instruments or evidence of the Village's
indebtedness.
G. Local
laws, ordinances or resolutions 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
dedication of property.
J. Any
local laws, ordinances or resolutions relating to salaries.
K. All
Zoning Map amendments.
L. All
local laws and resolutions adopted after January 26, 1976.
In compiling and preparing the local laws, ordinances and resolutions of the Village for publication as the Code of the Village of Lancaster, as distributed and designated in the table in §
1-2 hereof, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions have been made.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, Article or part of this local law or of any local law or ordinance cited in the table in §
1-2 hereof 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 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 Village Clerk of the Village of Lancaster 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 Village Clerk of the Village
of Lancaster by impressing thereon the seal of the Village of Lancaster,
and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said
Village Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine
the same during all times while the said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements
to any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions known collectively
as the "Code of the Village of Lancaster," or any new local laws,
ordinances or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as
to indicate the intention of the Board of Trustees 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 the 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 Board of Trustees deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the Village Clerk to keep up-to-date
the certified copy of the book containing the Code of the Village
of Lancaster required to be filed in the office of the Village Clerk
for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all local laws,
ordinances and resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees subsequent
to the enactment of this local law in such form as to indicate the
intention of said Board to be a part of said Code shall, when finally
enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment of
copies of such changes or local laws, ordinances or resolutions until
such change or 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 Village Clerk of
the Village of Lancaster upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution
of the Board of Trustees, which may also arrange by resolution for
procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Village Clerk,
changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion
of the Code of the Village of Lancaster, or who alters or tampers
with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Village of Lancaster 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 $250 or imprisonment for a term of not more than 15 days, or
both.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article
I of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Village of Lancaster, 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.