The ordinances and certain resolutions of the Village of Flossmoor, as codified by General Code, LLC, and consisting of the Chapters
1 through
277, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the " Village of Flossmoor Municipal Code," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the ordinances and resolutions contained in the Village of Flossmoor Municipal Code to any other ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number where such legislation appears in the Code, as if such 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 ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior 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 Flossmoor, 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 Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §
1-1-3 below.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the Village
of Flossmoor in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance,
inconsistent with the provisions contained therein, 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are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance.
The repeal of ordinances provided for in §
1-1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect the following classes of 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 Flossmoor prior to the effective date
of this ordinance 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 ordinance
in violation of any legislative provision of the Village of Flossmoor
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 ordinance brought pursuant
to any legislative provision of the Village of Flossmoor.
D. Any agreement
entered into or any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the Village of Flossmoor.
E. Any ordinance
of the Village of Flossmoor 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 Flossmoor or any portion thereof.
F. Any ordinance
of the Village of Flossmoor 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 Flossmoor or other
instruments or evidence of the Village's indebtedness.
G. Ordinances
authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property or any
lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
H. The levy
or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The annexation
or dedication of property.
J. Any ordinance
relating to salaries and compensation.
K. Any ordinance
amending the Zoning Map or providing for variations, special uses,
or PUD approval in accordance with the Village Zoning Ordinance.
L. Any ordinance
relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension fund for Village
employees.
M. Any ordinance
or portion of an ordinance establishing a specific fee amount for
any license, permit or service obtained from the Village.
N. Any ordinance
establishing street-specific vehicle and traffic regulations.
O. The provisions
of Village land use legislation, including zoning and subdivision
regulations, in effect prior or subsequent to the adoption of this
ordinance for the purposes of approvals and developments approved
or in existence as of the adoption of this ordinance.
P. Any ordinance
adopted subsequent to January 2013.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter
or part of this ordinance or of any 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 Clerk of the Village of Flossmoor 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 Village Clerk of the Village
of Flossmoor by impressing thereon the Seal of the Village of Flossmoor,
and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said
Village 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 and resolutions known collectively as the
" Village of Flossmoor Municipal Code" or any new ordinances 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 ordinance shall affect the status of any ordinance
or resolution contained herein, and such 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 Clerk to keep up-to-date
the Village of Flossmoor Municipal Code required to be filed in the
office of the Village Clerk for use by the public. All changes in
said Code and all ordinances and resolutions adopted by the Board
of Trustees subsequent to the enactment of this ordinance in such
form as to indicate the intention of said Board of Trustees to be
a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included
therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes, ordinances
or resolutions until such changes, ordinances or resolutions are printed
as supplements to said Code book, at which time such supplements shall
be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Village Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk,
upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Board of
Trustees. The Clerk may also arrange for procedures for the periodic
supplementation of the Code.
Any person who, without authorization from the Village Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the Village of Flossmoor or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Village of Flossmoor to be misrepresented thereby or who violates any other provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined as set forth in Chapter
150, Article I, of the Village Code.
The provisions of this ordinance are hereby made Article 1 of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Village of Flossmoor, entitled "General Provisions, Article 1, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this ordinance shall be numbered §§
1-1-1 to
1-1-13, inclusive.
This ordinance and the Village of Flossmoor Municipal Code are
hereby passed, approved and adopted and shall be in full force and
effect 10 days following publication as provided by law.