This Charter shall repeal "An Act to Incorporate the Town of
Ocean View in Sussex County. Delaware," that Act being Chapter 202,
Volume 73, Laws of Delaware, together with all amendments thereto.
If any article, section, provision or clause of this Charter
is held invalid, the other provisions shall not be affected thereby.
If the application of this Charter or any of its provisions to any
person or circumstances is held invalid, the application of the Charter
and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be
affected thereby.
All powers conferred upon or vested in the Town of Ocean View
or the Town Council by any Act or Law of the State of Delaware, not
in conflict with the provisions of this Charter, are hereby expressly
conferred upon and vested in the Town of Ocean View and/or the Town
Council precisely as if each of said powers was expressly repeated
in this Charter. All ordinances, adopted by the Town Council and in
force at the time of the approval, acceptance and going into effect
of this Charter, are continued in force until the same or any of them
shall be repeated, modified or altered by the Town Council under the
provisions of this Charter.
All the Acts, contracts entered into, and doings of the Town
Council or of any official of the Town of Ocean View, which shall
have been lawfully done or performed under the provisions of any Law
of this State or of any ordinance of the Town Council, prior to the
approval, acceptance and going into effect of this Charter, are hereby
ratified and confirmed, unless otherwise provided herein.
All taxes, assessments, license fees, penalties, fines and forfeitures
due the Town Council or the Town of Ocean View shall be due the Town
of Ocean View or the Town Council, and all debts due from the Town
of Ocean View or Town Council shall remain unimpaired until paid by
the Town of Ocean View or the Town Council.
All powers granted by this Charter in respect to the collection
of taxes, license fees, assessments or other charges shall be deemed
to apply and extend to all unpaid taxes, license fees, assessments
or other charges heretofore lawfully imposed by the Town Council.
The Bonds given by or on account of any official of the Town
of Ocean View shall not be impaired or affected by the provisions
of this Charter.
All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or in conflict with
the provisions of this Charter are hereby repealed.
This Charter may be reviewed at any time at the direction of
the Town Council, but the Town Council shall fully review this Charter
at a minimum of one (1) time in a ten (10) year period. Whenever the
masculine gender has been used in this Charter, it shall be construed
to include the feminine gender.
This Charter shall be taken as and deemed to be a Public Act
of the State Delaware.
