In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the Village of Orchard Park, as codified by General Code, and consisting of Chapters
1 through
225, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Orchard Park," hereafter termed the "Code" Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions contained in the "Code of the Village of Orchard Park" to any other local law, ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such local law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws, ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law are intended as a continuation of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law, ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Orchard Park, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §
1-3 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and permanent nature
of the Village of Orchard Park 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continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and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, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any
right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative
provision of the Village of Orchard Park prior to the effective date
of this local law or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement
of such right or liability.
B. Any
offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this
local law in violation of any legislative provision of the Village
of Orchard Park 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 Orchard Park.
D. Any
agreement entered into or any franchise, license, right, easement
or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by the Village of Orchard
Park.
E. Any
local law or ordinance of the Village of Orchard Park 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 Orchard Park or any portion thereof.
F. Any
local law or ordinance of the Village of Orchard Park 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 Orchard Park or other instruments or evidence of the Village's
indebtedness.
G. Local
laws or ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer
of property, or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
H. The
levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The
annexation or dedication of property.
J. Any
local law or ordinance relating to salaries and compensation.
K. Any
local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. Any
local law or ordinance relating to or establishing a pension plan
or pension fund for municipal employees.
M. Any
local law or ordinance or portion of a local law or ordinance establishing
a specific fee amount for any license, permit or service obtained
from the Village.
N. Any
local law or ordinance relating to the Retirement Incentive Program.
O. Any
local law adopted subsequent to April 1, 2009.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter
or part of this local law or of any local law, ordinance or resolution
included in this Code now or through supplementation 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, chapter 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-Treasurer of the Village of Orchard Park
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 by the Village Clerk-Treasurer
of the Village of Orchard Park by impressing thereon the Seal of the
Village of Orchard Park, and such certified copy shall remain on file
in the office of said Village Clerk-Treasurer to be made available
to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said
Code is in effect. The enactment and publication of this local law,
coupled with the availability of a copy 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.
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 Orchard Park" or any new local laws
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 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-Treasurer to keep
up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code of the
Village of Orchard Park required to be filed in the office of the
Village Clerk-Treasurer for use by the public. All changes in said
Code and all local laws 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, local laws or resolutions until such changes,
local laws or resolutions are printed as supplements to said Code
book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Village Clerk-Treasurer, or an authorized agent
of the Clerk-Treasurer, upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution
of the Board of Trustees. The Clerk-Treasurer may also arrange for
procedures for the periodic supplementation of the Code.
Any person who alters or tampers with the Code of the Village
of Orchard Park in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Village of Orchard Park 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 Orchard Park, 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.