[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of East Stroudsburg
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-19-1988 by Ord.
No. 878, approved 1-19-1988]
Be it enacted and ordained by the Borough Council of the Borough of
East Stroudsburg, County of Monroe, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and it is
enacted and ordained as follows:
The codification of a complete body of ordinances of the Borough of
East Stroudsburg, County of Monroe, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised,
codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code
Publishers Corp., is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the
"Code of the Borough of East Stroudsburg," hereinafter known and referred
to as the "Code," pursuant to Section 1008(b) of the Borough Code, 53 P.S.
§ 46008(b).
All provisions of the Code shall be in full force and effect on and
after the effective date of this ordinance.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature
adopted by the Borough of East Stroudsburg and 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adoption of this ordinance and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed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 §
1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to June 3, 1986.
B. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the Borough prior to the effective date
of this ordinance, or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement
of such right or liability.
C. Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision of the Borough
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 Borough.
E. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the Borough.
F. Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening,
altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing of grade, changing
of name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement,
street, road, highway, park or other public place.
G. 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 Borough or other instruments or evidence of
the Borough's indebtedness.
H. Any ordinance authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
I. Any ordinance annexing land to the Borough.
J. Any ordinance designating the boundaries of water districts.
K. The levy or imposition of taxes, special assessments
or charges.
L. The dedication of property.
M. Any currently effective ordinance or resolution establishing
the salaries or rates of compensation of officers and employees of the Borough.
N. Ordinance No. 831, adopted September 17, 1985, to amend
Ord. No. 570, adopted November 5, 1963.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted subsequent to the date given in §
1-4A and/or the date of adoption of this ordinance are hereby deemed to be a part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such legislation shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.
A. In compiling and preparing the ordinances of the Borough
of East Stroudsburg for adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain
grammatical changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said
ordinances. It is the intention of the Borough Council that all such changes
be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously
formally amended to read as such.
B. Certain changes of a substantive nature have been made
to various ordinances found within the Code, and certain new materials have
been added to the Code. These changes and additions have been made to bring
the provisions of the Code into conformity with the desired policies of the
Borough Council, and it is the intent of the Borough Council that all such
changes and additions be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances
so changed or added had been previously formally amended or adopted to read
as such. Such changes and additions are cited within the historical statements
by the terms "amended at time of adoption of Code" or "adopted at time of
adoption of Code" and are as follows.
A copy of the Code in a post-bound volume has been filed in the office
of the Borough Secretary and shall remain there for use and examination by
the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and if this ordinance
shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Borough Secretary,
as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office
of the Borough Secretary, available to persons desiring to examine the same
during all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code,
when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Borough
Council to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such
Code so that references to the Code shall be understood and intended to include
such changes. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements
to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided
hereunder, inserted in the post-bound book containing said Code as amendments
and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Secretary, or someone authorized
and directed by the Borough Secretary, to keep up-to-date the certified copy
of the book containing the Code required to be filed in the office of the
Borough Secretary for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all
ordinances adopted by the Borough Council subsequent to the effective date
of this codification, which the Borough Council shall adopt specifically as
part of the Code, shall, when finally adopted, be included therein by reference
until such changes or new ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code
book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the book containing the Code may be purchased from the Borough
Secretary upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Borough
Council, which may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the periodic
supplementation thereof.
The Borough Secretary, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published,
in the manner required, a notice of the adoption of this ordinance adopting
the Code in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. Sufficient
copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Borough Secretary
for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours. The
enactment and application of this ordinance adopting the Code, coupled with
availability of copies 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.
Each section of the Code and every part of each section is an independent
section or part of a section, and the holding of any section or a part thereof
to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed
to affect the validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts
thereof.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent section, and the holding
of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other sections or parts thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions
or deletions, any part or portion of the Code, or to alter or tamper with
such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Borough
to be misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this section of this ordinance
shall, upon conviction thereof before a District Justice, be guilty of a summary
offense and shall be punishable for each offense by a fine of not more than
$300 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.
This ordinance shall be included in the Code as Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I, Adoption of Code.