[Adopted 2-12-2008 by Ord. No. 021208]
The codification referred to in §
28-1 of this article shall be known and cited officially as the "Township of German Code of Ordinances," and all future ordinances shall make reference thereto. This article shall become effective immediately upon publication of notice of final enactment as required by law.
The provisions of the Township of German Code
of Ordinances, so far as they are the same as those ordinances and
regulations in force immediately prior to the adoption of said Code,
are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and regulations
and not as a new enactment. The provisions of the Township of German
Code of Ordinances shall not affect any suit or prosecution pending
or to be instituted to enforce any of the prior ordinances or regulations.
As a necessary part of codification, the existing
ordinances of the Township of German are hereby consolidated, revised,
amended, or otherwise disposed of as set forth in Exhibit B, which
is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
A table of final disposition of existing ordinances
is attached as Exhibit C.
The following minor procedural changes have
been made to existing Township of German ordinances:
A. Grammatical and spelling errors have been corrected
where necessary;
B. Minor changes have been made to correct obsolete terms
and usages;
C. The penalty provisions have been revised, where necessary,
to comply to the Pennsylvania Township Code, the Pennsylvania Motor
Vehicle Code, the Local Tax Enabling Act, and all other relevant statutes
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It shall be the responsibility of the Township
of German Secretary to maintain an up-to-date certified copy of the
Code of Ordinances. This copy shall be the official copy of the Township
of German Code of Ordinances and shall be available for public inspection.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to change, alter
or tamper with the Code of Ordinances in any manner which will intentionally
misrepresent the laws of the Township of German. Whosoever shall violate
this section shall be guilty of an offense under § 4911,
Tampering with public records or information, of the Crimes Code,
18 Pa. C.S.A. § 4911, and shall be prosecuted under that
provision of the law.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of
the Township of German that the chapters, parts, sections, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses and phrases of this codification are severable.
If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Code
is declared unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid by the
judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, that invalidity
shall not affect any of the remaining chapters, parts, sections, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses or phrases of this codification.