[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Griswold as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-10-2002]
A.Â
The compilation of the ordinances and regulations
of the Town of Griswold, 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 Griswold, Connecticut," hereinafter called the "Code." All
provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein and known
as the "Code of the Town of Griswold" shall be in force and effect
on and after the effective date of this ordinance.
B.Â
The adoption of the Code of the Town of Griswold shall
have no affect on nor shall the adoption of this ordinance in any
way affect the authority, powers, duties or responsibilities of the
Planning and Zoning Commission, Conservation Commission or Water Pollution
Control Authority by virtue of the inclusion in said Code of the regulations
adopted by said Commissions and Authority, nor shall the regulations
of the Planning and Zoning Commission, Conservation Commission or
Water Pollution Control Authority be affected thereby, except as the
regulations may have been amended by action of the respective Commission
or Authority.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they
are substantively the same as those ordinances and regulations in
force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance,
are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and regulations
and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions
shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance or regulation.
All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect
and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Town Meeting.
All ordinances and regulations or parts thereof
of the Town of Griswold 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with any provisions of the Code are hereby repealed from and after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,
sewer or inland wetlands regulations of the Town.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section,
article or part of this ordinance or of any ordinance or regulation
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 judgment shall have been rendered.
[Amended 5-22-2017 STM]
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has
been filed in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Griswold
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 Griswold by impressing thereon the Seal of the Town of Griswold,
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. Said book can be purchased through the
Town Clerk's Office at the current rate and can also be obtained from
the Town's website at www.griswold-ct.org at no cost.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments
or supplements to any of the ordinances or regulations known collectively
as the "Code of the Town of Griswold," or any new ordinances or regulations,
when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention
of the Town Meeting 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 any ordinance or regulation
contained herein, and such ordinances and regulations may be amended,
deleted or changed from time to time as the Town Meeting 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 Griswold 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 Meeting subsequent to the enactment of this ordinance
in such form as to indicate the intention of said Meeting 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 supplements shall be inserted therein.[1]
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 Griswold, or who alters or tampers
with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation
of the Town of Griswold 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.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances and
regulations for publication as the Code of the Town of Griswold, no
changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances or regulations
have been made, except as have been made by formal amendment thereto.
Certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes
were made in one or more of said ordinances and regulations, as authorized
by the Town Meeting. It is the intention of the Town Meeting that
all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances
and regulations had been previously formally amended to read as such.
This ordinance shall be effective 15 days after
publication in a newspaper having a circulation in the Town of Griswold.
