[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Edmonston as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 2-10-1997 by Ord. No. 96-002 (Ch. 1, Art. I, of the 1997 Code)]
A. 
All existing ordinances adopted by the Mayor and Town Council of Edmonston are hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof the following is respectively adopted, ratified, enacted and ordained as the general ordinances of the Mayor and Town Council of Edmonston.
B. 
The repeal of an ordinance shall not revoke any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect. The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
It shall not be necessary for the Town Clerk to record the aforesaid ordinance, but the printed copy of the original of this ordinance shall be under the signature of the Town Clerk, attested by the Seal of the Town, and shall be deposited in the office of the Town Clerk to be safely kept and preserved as and for the original of said ordinance.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Town Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or words of the Code are severable, and if any word, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Code is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such holding shall not be construed as affecting the validity of any remaining section or part of a section of such ordinance or article, it being the legislative intent of the Mayor and Town Council of Edmonston that the remainder of such ordinance or article shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity of such section or part of a section.
[An ordinance to provide for the renumbering of the 1997 Code and other legislation of the Town of Edmonston into a Municipal Code to be designated the "Code of the Town of Edmonston" is presently proposed before the Mayor and Town Council. Upon final adoption, it will be included here as Article II of this chapter.]