There is hereby adopted by the Board of Supervisors that certain Code entitled the "Code of Buchanan County, Virginia," containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature as revised, compiled, consolidated and codified in Chapters
1 to
90, both inclusive.
The provisions of such Code shall be in force on and after the effective
date of this ordinance, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature
enacted on or prior to the effective date of this ordinance and not contained
in such Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this
ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The repeal provided for in the preceding section of this ordinance shall
not affect any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture
incurred or any contract or right established or occurring before the effective
date of this ordinance; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance or resolution
promising or guaranteeing the payment of money by or for the county or authorizing
the issue of any bonds of the county or any evidence of indebtedness or any
contract or obligation assumed by the county; nor shall it affect any right
or franchise conferred by ordinance or resolution of the county on any person
or corporation; nor shall it affect any ordinance adopted for purposes which
have been consummated or any ordinance which is temporary, although general
in effect, or special, although permanent in effect; nor shall it affect any
of the following ordinances or any amendment thereto:
A. Any appropriation ordinance.
B. Any ordinance levying or imposing taxes.
C. Any ordinance providing for any public improvement.
D. Any ordinance making any assessment.
E. Any ordinance opening, relocating, closing, altering
or naming any streets or alleys.
F. Any ordinance relative to salaries, wages or compensation
or bonds of county officers and employees or to members or employees of county
boards or commissions.
G. Any ordinance relative to annexation of territory to
the county or relative to the change, expansion or contraction of the corporate
boundaries of the county.
H. Any ordinance adopted subsequent to January 1, 1997.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Supervisors
that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance
and of the Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph
or section of this ordinance or such Code shall be declared unconstitutional
or invalid by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance or
of such Code.
Three copies of the Code shall be filed in the office of the County
Administrator and be made available on premises to persons desiring to examine
the same.