The ordinances of the City of Rehoboth Beach, County of Sussex, State of Delaware, of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Commissioners of Rehoboth Beach, hereinafter known and referred to as the "Commissioners," as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of Chapters
1 through
270 are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as "The Municipal Code of the City of Rehoboth Beach, 2001," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they
are substantively the same as those of 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 Commissioners of Rehoboth Beach, and it is the intention of
said Commissioners that each such provision contained within the Code
is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in the Code.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has
been filed in the office of the City Manager of the City of Rehoboth
Beach 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 City Manager
of the City of Rehoboth Beach by impressing thereon the Seal of the
City, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of
said City Manager to be made available to persons desiring to examine
the same during all times when said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to the Code or any new ordinances, when enacted or
adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Commissioners
of Rehoboth Beach 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.
It shall be the duty of the City Manager or
such other authorized person to keep up-to-date the certified copy
of the book containing the Code of the City of Rehoboth Beach required
to be filed in the office of the City Manager for use by the public.
All changes in said Code and all ordinances adopted by the Commissioners
of Rehoboth Beach subsequent to the enactment of this ordinance in
such form as to indicate the intention of said Commissioners of Rehoboth
Beach to be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted,
be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes
or ordinances until such changes or ordinances are printed as supplements
to said Code book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted
therein.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
with the provisions contained in the Code adopted by this ordinance
are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall only
be to the extent of such inconsistency, and any valid legislation
of the City of Rehoboth Beach which is not in conflict with the provisions
of the Code shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances of
the City of Rehoboth Beach for adoption and revision as part of the
Code renumbering, certain grammatical and other minor changes were
made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the
Commissioners of Rehoboth Beach that all such changes be adopted as
part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously
formally adopted to read as such.
The provisions of this ordinance are hereby made Article
I of Chapter
1 of the Code of the City of Rehoboth Beach, and the sections shall be numbered §§
1-1 through
1-10, inclusive.
All provisions of the Code shall be in full
force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance,
which shall take effect immediately upon its final adoption.