[CC 1961 §1.01; Ord. No. 1277 §1.01, 1-12-1961]
A. Title. All ordinances of the City of a general and permanent
nature as revised and codified herein, are hereby ordained and adopted
as the Municipal Code of the City of Berkeley.
B. Amendments. Any additions or amendments to this Code are
incorporated in this Code so that a reference to The Municipal Code
of the City of Berkeley includes them.
C. Numbering Of Sections. Each Section number of this Code
shall consist of two (2) component parts separated by a period, the
figure before the period referring to the Chapter number and the figure
after the period referring to the position of the Section within the
Chapter.
D. Numbering Additions. The decimal system shall be used for
all additions or amendments to this Code. When a Chapter or Section
is to be added, it shall be given a decimal character.
[CC 1961 §1.02; Ord. No. 1277 §1.02, 1-12-1961]
A. Terms
used in this Code, unless otherwise specifically defined, have the
meanings prescribed by the Revised Statutes of Missouri for the same
terms.
B. Terms
used in this Code shall have the meanings set out herein:
CITY
The City of Berkeley, Missouri.
PERSON
Any natural individual, firm, trust, partnership, association
or corporation. As applied to partnerships or associations the word
person includes the partners or members thereof; as applied to corporations
it includes officers, agents, or employees thereof who are responsible
for the act referred to. The singular includes the plural and the
plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine
and neuter genders.
THIS CODE
The Municipal Code of the City of Berkeley.
[CC 1961 §1.03; Ord. No. 1277 §1.03, 1-12-1961]
A. All
general ordinances or parts thereof heretofore adopted by the Council
and not included in this Code are repealed, except the following which
are hereby continued in full force and effect:
1. Ordinances authorizing contracts or the issue of municipal notes
or bonds.
2. Ordinances levying taxes or making special assessments.
3. Ordinances appropriating funds or establishing salaries.
4. Ordinances granting franchises or rights to corporations.
5. Ordinances relating to the dedication, opening, grade, improvement,
altering, widening or vacating of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public
places.
6. Ordinances respecting the conveyance or acceptance of real property
or easements in real property.
7. Ordinances authorizing or relating to particular public improvements.
8. Any other special ordinances not in conflict with the provisions
of this Code.
B. Zoning
ordinances are amended in certain minor respects only, but not in
substance, to read as set forth in this Code.
C. The
provisions of this Code, so far as they are the same in substance
as those of heretofore existing ordinances are continuations of such
ordinances and not new enactments. Any act done, offense committed,
or right accruing or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or
punishment incurred prior hereto shall not be affected, but may be
enjoyed, asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and
to the same extent as if the above repeal had not been effected.
[CC 1961 §1.04; Ord. No. 1277 §1.04, 1-12-1961]
A. Unless
otherwise provided in this Code, this Code shall apply to all acts
performed within the corporate limits of the City of Berkeley. Provisions
of this Code shall also apply to acts performed outside the corporate
limits and up to the limits provided by law, where the law confers
power on the City to regulate such particular acts outside the corporate
limits.
B. Provisions
of this Code which relate to maintaining nuisances and prescribing
punishments therefor, shall be enforced outside the corporate limits
of the City for a distance of one-half (½) mile, the same as
within the City limits; and the doing of or maintaining anything within
one-half (½) mile of the corporate limits which is or may become
a nuisance and which is prohibited by this Code, is hereby declared
to be a violation of this Code, the same as if done or maintained
within the City, to be punished in like manner by prosecution in the
Municipal Court.