[HISTORY: Adopted by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town
of Plainville 3-14-2012. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Zoning Board of Appeals hereby ratifies and confirms the
2012 recodification of its regulations as part of the Code of the
Town of Plainville. The following revisions have been made, as incorporated
in Division 6 of the document entitled "Draft Regulations —
Code of the Town of Plainville," published in December 2011, prepared
by General Code, LLC, on file in the office of the Town Clerk:
A.
A chapter
number has been assigned to each distinct regulation;
B.
Each section
of the regulation has been renumbered accordingly;
C.
Chapter
and section titles have been inserted;
D.
Internal
references have been updated to reflect the new numbering system;
and
E.
Defined
terms have been reorganized so they are indented and capitalized in
distinct definitions sections of various chapters.
The Zoning Board of Appeals hereby ratifies the following global
changes to the text of its previous regulations, all as incorporated
in Division 6 of the document entitled "Draft Regulations —
Code of the Town of Plainville," published in December 2011, prepared
by General Code, LLC, on file in the office of the Town Clerk:
A.
Statutory
references to the Massachusetts General Laws were revised to a standard
citation form as MGL c. __, § ___.
B.
Certain
grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made
according to publishing standards (i.e., "style conventions"); however,
no changes in the meaning or intent of the Board’s regulations
have been made. It is the intention of the Zoning Board of Appeals
that all such changes be adopted as part of Division 6 of the Code
as if the regulations had been previously formally amended to read
as such.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively
the same as those of the regulations in force immediately prior to
the adoption of the codified regulations, are intended as a continuation
of such regulations and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness
of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior
regulation. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force
and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Zoning
Board of Appeals, and it is the intention of said Zoning Board of
Appeals that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby
reaffirmed as it appears in said Code.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter
or part of this resolution or of any regulation included in Division
6 of the Code of the Town of Plainville 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.
This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption
by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
