[Adopted 2-7-2005 by Ord. No. 862]
The adoption of omnibus corrections of certain
technical, outdated, and typographical errors to limited portions
of the Code, as set forth in the Draft prepared by General Code Publishers,
dated December 2004, and as approved by motion of the City Council,
be and the same are adopted.
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede
all general and permanent ordinances enacted prior to the enactment
of this Code, except such ordinances as are hereinafter expressly
saved from repeal or continued in force.
All amendments of the provisions of the ordinances
shall be in full force and effect on or after the passage and approval
of this ordinance to the extent not otherwise provided herein.
A copy of the Code outlining the technical,
outdated, and typographical errors to limited portions of the Code
affected shall be available in loose-leaf form at the front desk of
City Hall and shall be made available to persons desiring to examine
the same during all times while the Code is pending, subject to photocopying
fees as allowed by the Maryland Public Records Act.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly
change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of
the Code or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever
which will cause the law of the City of Havre de Grace to be misrepresented
thereby. Any violation of this section shall be punishable as a misdemeanor,
the penalty for which shall be a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment
for a term not to exceed six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
A.
Each section of the Code and every part of each section
is an independent section or part of a section, and the holding of
any section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other section or part thereof.
B.
Each section of this ordinance is an independent section,
and the holding of any section or part thereof to be unconstitutional,
void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the
validity or constitutionality of any other section or part thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general,
permanent nature adopted and in force on the date of the adoption
of this ordinance and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed
as of the effective date of this adopting ordinance, except as hereinafter
provided.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for
adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes
and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances.
It is the intention of the Mayor and Council that all such changes
be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had
been previously formally amended to read as such.
The adoption of this ordinance and repeal of
ordinances or any parts thereof shall not affect the following ordinances,
rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any legislative provisions or any penalty, punishment
or forfeiture which may result therefrom;
B.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other
proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective
date of this ordinance brought pursuant to any legislative provision;
C.
A franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred;
D.
Any ordinance providing for the laying out, opening,
altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing of grade,
changing of name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way,
easement, street, road, highway, park or other public place or any
portion thereof;
E.
Any ordinance or resolution appropriating money or
transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money
or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond or other instruments
or evidence of the City’s indebtedness;
F.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or
transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation;
G.
The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges;
H.
Ordinances establishing the amount and manner of payment
of salaries or compensation of officers and employees, establishing
workdays and working hours of certain employees and providing for
holidays and vacations for employees and keeping of employment records;
or
I.
Any legislation relating to or establishing a pension
plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
