[Adopted 8-5-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws, ordinances and certain resolutions of the Town of Cortlandville, as codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters
1 through
178, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "Code of the Town of Cortlandville," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions contained in the "Code of the Town of Cortlandville" to any other local law, ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such local law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of local laws, ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law, are intended as a continuation of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law, ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Town Board of the Town of Cortlandville, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws and ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of §
1-3 below.
All local laws and ordinances of a general and
permanent nature of the Town of Cortlandville in force on the date
of the adoption of this local law and not contained in such Code or
recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby
repealed from and after the effective date of this local law.
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in §
1-3 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A. Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred
under any legislative provision of the Town of Cortlandville prior
to the effective date of this local law or any action or proceeding
brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
B. Any offense or act committed or done before the effective
date of this local law in violation of any legislative provision of
the Town of Cortlandville or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture
which may result therefrom.
C. Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other
proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective
date of this local law brought pursuant to any legislative provision
of the Town of Cortlandville.
D. Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege
heretofore granted or conferred by the Town of Cortlandville.
E. Any local law or ordinance of the Town of Cortlandville
providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating,
straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance
or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway,
park or other public place within the Town of Cortlandville or any
portion thereof.
F. Any local law or ordinance of the Town of Cortlandville
appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing
the payment of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any
bond of the Town of Cortlandville or other instruments or evidence
of the town's indebtedness.
G. Local laws or ordinances authorizing the purchase,
sale, lease or transfer of property or any lawful contract or obligation.
H. The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
I. The annexation or dedication of property.
J. Any legislation relating to salaries.
K. Any local law or ordinance amending the Zoning Map.
L. Any legislation adopted subsequent to October 10,
1997.
M. Any legislation relating to or establishing a pension
plan or pension fund for municipal employees.
N. Legislation regarding affirmative action, adopted
November 20, 1987.
O. Legislation regarding an Investment Policy, adopted
August 19, 1987.
P. Legislation regarding electrical standards, adopted
April 16, 1975.
Q. Legislation regarding flood damage prevention, adopted
by Local Law No. 2-1983.
R. Legislation establishing personnel policies.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section,
article, chapter or part of this local law or of any local law, ordinance
or resolution included in this Code now or 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, chapter 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 Cortlandville
and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until
final action is taken on this local law; and, if this local law shall
be adopted, such copy shall be certified by the Town Clerk of the
Town of Cortlandville by impressing thereon the Seal of the town,
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 local law, 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.
[Amended 2-1-2023 by L.L. No. 2-2023]
A. Any and all
additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the local
laws, ordinances and resolutions known collectively as the "Code of
the Town of Cortlandville" or any new local laws, ordinances or resolutions,
when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention
of the Town Board 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 local law shall affect the status of any local law, ordinance
or resolution contained herein, and such local laws, ordinances or
resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as
the Town Board deems desirable.
B. All fees
adopted by the Town of Cortlandville Town Board may be amended by
Town Board resolution and shall be available on file at the Town of
Cortlandville.
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 Cortlandville required to be filed in the office of the Town
Clerk for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all local
laws, ordinances and resolutions adopted by the Town Board subsequent
to the enactment of this local law 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, local laws, ordinances or resolutions until
such changes, local laws, ordinances or resolutions 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 Cortlandville upon the payment of a fee
to be set by resolution of the Town Board, 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 Cortlandville or who alters
or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the legislation of the Town of Cortlandville to be misrepresented
thereby or who violates any other provision of this local law shall
be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for a term of not
more than 15 days, or both.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article
I of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Town of Cortlandville, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article
I, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§
1-1 to
1-13, inclusive.
This local law shall take effect immediately
upon filing with the Secretary of State of the State of New York.