[Adopted 6-18-1990]
The compilation of the Town Charter and ordinances
of the Town of Wethersfield, 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 Wethersfield, Connecticut," hereinafter called the
"Code." All provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein
and known as the "Code of the Town of Wethersfield" 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 Wethersfield 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with any provisions of the Code are hereby repealed from and after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. Specifically saved from repeal,
however, are the following:
A.
Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty
or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing
before the effective date of such Code.
B.
Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money for the Town or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of
the Town or any evidence of the Town's indebtedness.
C.
Any contract or obligation assumed by the Town.
D.
Any right or franchise granted by the Town.
E.
Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating,
relocating, opening paving, widening, vacating, etc., any park, playground
or recreational facility.
F.
Any ordinance relating to specific public improvements
or assessments therefor.
G.
Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for
streets.
H.
Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing
for the levying of taxes or for an annual budget.
I.
Any ordinance in effect which regulates Town elections
and voting district boundaries.
J.
Any ordinance relating to the investment of municipal
funds.
K.
Any legislation dealing with the Special Acts of the
Town.
L.
Any legislation adopted subsequent to August 21, 1989.
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 Wethersfield
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 Wethersfield by impressing thereon the Seal of the Town of
Wethersfield, 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 the 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 Wethersfield," 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 Wethersfield 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 Council 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.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the
Town Clerk of the Town of Wethersfield upon the payment of a fee to
be set by resolution of the Town Council, which Council 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 Wethersfield, or who alters
or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the legislation of the Town of Wethersfield 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 Wethersfield, no changes in the meaning or intent of such Charter or ordinances have been made, except as provided for in Subsection B hereof. In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. 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 ordinance 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 § 1-17B, the following sections and chapters were added or amended: §§ 10-10, 10-50, 10-83A and C, 27-3D, Ch. 31, §§ 99-3, 105-3, 143-2, 143-4, 143-6, 143-20, 143-26D, 143-41, 160-8, 160-9 and 167-1.
The following original sections were deleted:
Secs. 1-3-1 and 1-3-2 of the Code of 1972.
A complete description of each change may
be found in the ordinance adopted 6-18-1990, on file and available
for inspection in the office of the Town Clerk.
This ordinance shall be effective 21 days after
publication.
