The intent of this chapter is to establish comprehensive controls for the development of land in the Town of Jerusalem and is enacted in order to promote and protect health, safety, comfort, convenience and the general welfare of the people.
The purpose of this chapter and the regulations thereunder shall be to follow and to help implement the goals and policies set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Jerusalem, adopted by the Town Board, March 13, 1973, and any amendments thereto.[1] It is also to secure safety and to promote health and general welfare and for such other purposes as shall from time to time be appropriate under the provisions of § 263 of the Town Law of the State of New York.
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Editor's Note: A copy of the Town's Comprehensive Plan is on file in the office of the Town Clerk and may be examined there during regular business hours.
[Added 2-15-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012]
If any word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or other portion of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or to any circumstance, is adjudged or declared invalid or unenforceable by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, then, and in such event, such judgment or declaration shall be confined in its interpretation and operation only to the provision of this chapter that is directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or declaration is rendered, and such judgment or declaration of invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect or impair the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this chapter or the application hereof to any other persons or circumstances. If necessary as to such person or circumstances, such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be and be deemed severed herefrom, and the Town Board hereby declares that it would have enacted this chapter, or the remainder thereof, even if, as to particular provisions and persons or circumstances, a portion hereof is severed or declared invalid or unenforceable.