[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Farmington as
indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-28-1992]
The compilation of the Town Charter and ordinances of the Town of Farmington,
codified and consolidated into parts, chapters and sections in the form attached
hereto and made a part hereof, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted
as the “Code of the Town of Farmington, Connecticut,” hereinafter
called the “Code.” All provisions contained in the compilation
provided for herein and known as the “Code of the Town of Farmington”
shall be in force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same
as those ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code
by this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and not
as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from
the date of adoption of the prior ordinance. All such provisions are hereby
continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption
by the Town Council.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the Town of Farmington of a
general and permanent nature in force on the date of the adoption of this
ordinance which are inconsistent with any provisions of the Code are hereby
repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance; provided, however,
that nothing herein shall be construed as repealing or altering the zoning,
subdivision or inland wetlands regulations of the Town.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part of this
ordinance or of any ordinance appearing in the Code or included in this Code
through supplementation shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder
thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,
section, article or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which
such judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed in the office
of the Town Clerk of the Town of Farmington 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 Town Clerk of the Town of Farmington by impressing thereon the Seal of
the Town of Farmington, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the
office of said Town Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine
the same during all times while said Code is in effect. The enactment and
publication of this ordinance, coupled with the availability of a copy 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, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Town
Charter or to any of the ordinances known collectively as the “Code
of the Town of Farmington,” or any new ordinances, when enacted or adopted
in such form as to indicate the intention of the Town Council to be a part
thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference
to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions,
amendments or supplements. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to the Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter
be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing
said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing contained in this
ordinance shall affect the status of the Charter or any ordinance contained
herein, and such ordinances may be amended, deleted or changed from time to
time as the Town Council deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing the Code of the Town of Farmington required to
be filed in the office of the Town Clerk for use by the public. All changes
in said Code and all ordinances adopted by the Town Council subsequent to
the enactment of this ordinance in such form as to indicate the intention
of said Board to be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted,
be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes until
such changes are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which time such
ordinances may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the Town
Council deems desirable.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the Town Clerk of the Town
of Farmington upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Town
Council, which Board may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the
periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Town Clerk, changes or
amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the
Town of Farmington, or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner
whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Town of Farmington to be
misrepresented thereby, or who violates any other provision of this ordinance,
shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine of not more than $90.
A.
In compiling and preparing the Charter and ordinances
for publication as the Code of the Town of Farmington, no changes in the meaning
or intent of such Charter or ordinances have been made. Certain grammatical
changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of
said ordinances, as authorized by the Town Counsel. It is the intention of
the Town Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if
the ordinances 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.)[1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Pursuant to § 1-108, the following nomenclature changes were made throughout the Code: Zoning Enforcement Official to Zoning Enforcement Officer; Building Inspector to Building Official; Sewer Authority to Water Pollution Control Authority; Tax Collector to Collector of Revenue; Inland Wetlands Commission to Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency; Department of Health to Department of Health Services; Director of Public Health, Town Health Officer and Director or Health to Farmington Valley Health District; Commissioner of Community Affairs to Commissioner of Housing; and Court of Common Pleas to Superior Court. In addition, the following sections were added or amended §§ 5-1, 5-2A, 5-4, 5-6, 5-7, 9-1, 9-2A, 20-1, 20-7, 24-2, 27-1, 31-6E, 31-12A, 35-2A, 38-1, 41-1, 47-5, 47-6, 47-7, 47-8, 59-1, 62-1, 68-1, 68-1, 75-3, 75-7, 83-2, 87-6, 106-3, 111-1B, 111-2, 111-3D and E, 111-5, 111-9A, 118-3, 118-4A, 118-9B(3), 118-13, 118-68, 135-4, 135-8, 140-4, 140-8, 140-10, 140-11, 144-12B, 144-14, 152-2, 152-4, 152-5, 152-6, 152-18B, 152-20C, 152-26, 156-1, 156-2, 156-10, 156-29A, 156-30A, 156-31, 156-32, 156-35, 156-43B and D, 169-2A, 169-3, 169-6B and D, 169-13, 169-14B, 169-15, 169-16A, 169-17, 169-19, 169-24, 169-25, 169-28, 169-29, 176-1, 176-5, 182-11, 186-3A, 189-2, 189-4, 193-2, 193-3 and 193-4. In addition, the following original sections or articles were deleted: Section 3 of Ord. No. 36; Sections 4.2, 4.3 and 6 of Ord. No. 81; the definition of “Director of Public Health” in Section 1 of Ord. No. 84; and Art VII of Ord. No. 50.
