[Adopted 10-16-2019 by Order No. FY 20-047]
The ordinances of the City of Greenfield, formerly known as the Town of Greenfield, of a general and permanent nature adopted by the City Council, as previously consolidated by the City of Greenfield, as amended through 2002, and the ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the City Council subsequent to that date, all as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code LLC, and consisting the Code, Chapter 1, General Provisions, through Appendix Chapter A 600, entitled "General Law Acceptances and Special Acts," are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the Code of the City of Greenfield, hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment of this Code,
except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly saved from repeal
or continued in force.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage and
publication according to law and applied retroactively from September
1, 2017 thereafter.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the
office of the City Clerk 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 Clerk of the City of Greenfield by impressing thereon the Seal
of the City as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain
on file in the office of the Clerk of the City to be made available
to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while the
said Code is in effect.
The Clerk of the City of Greenfield, pursuant to law, shall
cause to be published, in the manner required, a copy of this adopting
ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. Sufficient
copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk
for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours.
The enactment and publication of this adopting ordinance, coupled
with the availability of copies 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, amendments or supplements to the Code,
when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of
the City Council to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be
incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code of the City
of Greenfield shall be understood and intended to include such additions
and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and,
as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
the said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted subsequent to the date given in § 1-1 and prior to the effective date of this ordinance given in § 1-3 are hereby deemed to be part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such legislation shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone authorized and
directed by her or him, to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the
Code required to be filed in his/her office for the use of the public.
All changes in said Code and all ordinances adopted subsequent to
the effective date of this codification which shall be adopted specifically
as part of the Code shall, when finally adopted, be included therein
by reference until such changes or new ordinances are printed as supplements
to said Code, at which time such supplements shall be included therein.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend,
by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code, or to
alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will
cause the law of the City of Greenfield to be misrepresented thereby.
Anyone violating this section of this ordinance shall be subject,
upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $300.
A.
Severability of Code provisions. Each section of the Code, and every
part of each section, is an independent section or part of a section,
and the holding of any section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof.
B.
Severability of ordinance provisions. Each section of this ordinance
is an independent section, and the holding of any section or part
thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause
shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality of
any other sections or parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent
nature, adopted and in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance
and being inconsistent with any ordinance contained in the Code, are
hereby repealed as of the effective date of this adopting ordinance,
except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-12 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to September 1, 2017.
B.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any
legislative provision prior to the effective date of this ordinance,
or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right
or liability.
C.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective date of
this ordinance in violation of any legislative provision, or any penalty,
punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
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.
E.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred.
F.
Any ordinance 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, or any portion thereof.
G.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or transferring funds,
promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the
issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments or evidence
of the Town's indebtedness.
H.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property,
or any lawful contract or obligation.
I.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges.
J.
The dedication of property or approval of preliminary or final subdivision
plats.
K.
Any ordinance providing for salaries or compensation.
L.
Any ordinance relating to traffic or parking.
A.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption and revision
as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes and other minor changes
were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of
the City Council that all said changes be adopted as part of the Code
as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally amended
to read as such.
B.
In addition, the following changes, amendments or revisions are made
herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance.
(Chapter and section number references in Schedule A attached hereto
are to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appear in the
Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-13.1B, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted, or deleted by this ordinance are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article I. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: "Amended (added, deleted) 10-16-2019 by Order No. FY 20-047." Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the City offices.
