[Adopted 10-5-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992]
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the Village of Buchanan, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through
211, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Village of Buchanan," 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 Buchanan 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 Buchanan, 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 Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §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, ordinances and resolutions of a general and
permanent nature of the Village of Buchanan, including the 1971 Code
of the Village of Buchanan, 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in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the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 Buchanan 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 Buchanan 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 Buchanan.
D. Any
franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred by the Village of Buchanan.
E. Any
local law or ordinance of the Village of Buchanan 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 Buchanan or any portion thereof.
F. Any
local law or ordinance of the Village of Buchanan 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 Buchanan 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 or obligation.
H. The
levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The
annexation or dedication of property.
J. Any
legislation relating to salaries.
K. Any
local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. Any
legislation adopted subsequent to December 16, 1991.
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 Administrator-Clerk of the Village of Buchanan
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 Administrator-Clerk
of the Village of Buchanan by impressing thereon the Seal of the Village
of Buchanan, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office
of said Village Administrator-Clerk 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 Buchanan" 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 Administrator-Clerk to keep
up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code of the
Village of Buchanan required to be filed in the office of the Village
Administrator-Clerk 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 may be purchased from the Village Administrator-Clerk
of the Village of Buchanan upon the payment of a fee to be set by
resolution of the Board of Trustees, which Board may also arrange
by resolution for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Village Administrator-Clerk,
changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion
of the Code of the Village of Buchanan or who alters or tampers with
such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Village of Buchanan 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 Buchanan, 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.