[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Easton
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-25-1980 as Title IA, §§ 4 and 6, of the 1980 Code
of Ordinances]
Any person who shall violate any provision of any ordinance
of this Town for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined
not more than $100.
A. As used in
this Code, the term "General Statutes" shall mean the General Statutes
of the State of Connecticut, as amended from time to time.
B. Whenever
any words in any section of this Code import the plural number, the
singular number shall be deemed to be included, and whenever the singular
number shall be used, it shall be deemed to include the plural. Any
word of masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter and
may refer to a corporation or to a board or other body or assemblage
of persons, and when the sense so indicates, words of the neuter gender
may refer to any gender. Words used in the present tense include the
future.
[Added 9-15-2014]
The compilation of the ordinances of the Town of Easton, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections in the form attached hereto and made a part hereof, and consisting of Chapters
1 through
430, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Easton, Connecticut," hereinafter called the "Code." All provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein and known as the "Code of the Town of Easton" shall be in force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively
the same as those ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment
of the Code by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such
ordinances and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such
provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance.
All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect
and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Town.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions contained in the Code adopted by this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall only be to the
extent of such inconsistency, and any valid legislation of the Town
of Easton which is not in conflict with the provisions of the Code
shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of any ordinance
contained herein or if the application thereof to any person, firm,
corporation or circumstances for any reason is adjudged by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, said
judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of such
ordinance and the application of such provision to other persons,
firms, corporations or circumstances but shall be confined in its
operation to the clause, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved
in the controversy in which said judgment shall have been rendered
and to the person, firm, corporation or circumstances involved.
A copy of the Code has been filed in the office of the Town
Clerk of the Town of Easton 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 Town Clerk of the Town of Easton, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of said Town 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 ordinance,
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 ordinances in the Code of the Town of Easton, or any
new ordinances, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate
the intention that they 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 inserted
in said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to keep up-to-date the
certified copy of the Code of the Town of Easton required to be filed
in the office of the Town Clerk for use by the public. All changes
in said Code and all ordinances adopted by the Town subsequent to
the enactment of this ordinance in such form as to indicate the intention
that they be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted,
be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes
until such changes are included as supplements to said Code.
Hard copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may
be purchased from the Town Clerk of the Town of Easton or an authorized
agent of the Town Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by the
Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk may also arrange for procedures
for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Town Clerk, changes
or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code
of the Town of Easton, or who alters or tampers with such Code in
any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Town
of Easton to be misrepresented thereby, or who violates any other
provision of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine of not more than $100.
A. In compiling and preparing the ordinances for publication as the Code of the Town of Easton, no changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances have been made, except as provided in Subsection
B of this section. Certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Town Meeting that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. The amendments
as set forth in Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof
are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of
this ordinance. (Chapter and section number references are to the
ordinances as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.)
This ordinance shall take effect upon passage and publication
as required by law.