[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Standish: Art.
I, 8-13-1991 as Order No. 65-91. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 8-13-1991 as Order No. 65-91]
Be it enacted and ordained by the Town Council of the Town of Standish,
County of Cumberland, State of Maine, and it is enacted and ordained as follows:
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The various ordinances of the Town of Standish of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Standish, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through 273, are hereby approved. adopted. ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Standish," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all 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.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of
the Town 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 Town of Standish,
and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of
the town, to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during
all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed
and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of the Town Council to
make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code
so that reference to the "Code of the Town of Standish" 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
said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Town of Standish, pursuant to law, shall cause to be
published, in the manner required by law, a copy of this Adopting Ordinance.
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 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.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk, or someone authorized and directed
by the Clerk, to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing
the Code required to be filed in the Clerk's 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
book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased from the
Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Town Council,
which may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation
thereof.
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 Town of
Standish to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating this section or part
of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not more
than $100, in the discretion of the Judge imposing the same.
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.
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 not
contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this
Adopting Ordinance, except as hereinafter saved from repeal.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for
in § 112 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 February 12, 1991.
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 of grade, changing
of 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 borough'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. All currently effective ordinances pertaining to the
rate and manner of payment of salaries and compensation of officers and employees.
L. Ord. No. 3-88, regarding general assistance, and any
amendments thereto.
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 Borough Council that all such 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 are to the ordinances as they have
been renumbered and appear in the Code.)