The ordinances embraced in the following chapters and sections
shall constitute and be designated the Dover Code and may be so cited
or may be cited "the Code."
Part, chapter, article and section headings and notes and references
are included in this Code for the convenience of users and are not
to be construed as part of the text to which they relate.
All ordinances passed subsequent to the Code which amend, repeal
or in any way affect the Code may be numbered in accordance with the
numbering system of the Code and printed for inclusion herein or,
in the case of repealed chapters, sections and subsections or any
part thereof, by subsequent ordinances, such repealed portions may
be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages affected
thereby, and the subsequent ordinances as numbered printed or omitted,
in the case of repeal, shall be prima facie evidence of such subsequent
ordinances until such time as the Code and subsequent ordinances numbered
or omitted are readopted as a new revision by the City Council.
It shall be unlawful for any person in the City to change or
amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portions of the Code,
or to insert or delete pages, or portions thereof, or to alter or
tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the
law of the City to be misrepresented thereby.
The sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of
the Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph
or section of the Code shall be declared unconstitutional, invalid
or unenforceable by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent
jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality, invalidity or unenforceability
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, sentences, paragraphs
or sections of the Code.
In all cases where the same offense is made punishable or is
created by different clauses or sections of the Code, the prosecuting
officer may elect under which to proceed, but not more than one recovery
shall be had against the same person for the same offense, provided
that the revocation of a license or permit shall not be considered
a recovery or penalty so as to bar any other penalty being enforced.