[Adopted 2-26-2008 by Ord. No. O-08-07]
The various chapters of the 1987 Nashua Revised Ordinances (Code) and subsequent ordinances and resolutions of the City of Nashua of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 325, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Nashua Revised Ordinances," hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede
the 1987 Nashua Municipal Code and all other general and permanent
legislation enacted prior to the enactment of this Code, except such
legislation as is hereinafter expressly saved from repeal or continued
in force. The repeal provided for hereof shall not be construed to
revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent
ordinance that is repealed.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they
are substantively the same as those of the legislation in force immediately
prior to the enactment of the Code by this ordinance, are intended
as a continuation of such legislation and not as new enactments, and
the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption
of the prior legislation.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon passage and publication according to law.
A.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed
in the office of the City Clerk 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 Clerk, and such certified copy shall remain on file
in the office of said City Clerk to be made available to persons desiring
to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect.
B.
The City Clerk of the City of Nashua is hereby directed
to make copies of the Code of the City of Nashua available at no charge
to members of the Board of Aldermen, heads of municipal departments
and any public library within the City. Any person may inspect the
Code at the office of the City Clerk at no charge. Any person, other
than those enumerated as being able to obtain copies of the Code without
charge, shall be allowed to purchase copies of the Code from the City
Clerk.
Any and all additions, deletions, or amendments
to the Code, when adopted in such form as to indicate the intention
of the Board of Aldermen to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed
to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Nashua
Revised Ordinances (NRO)" shall be understood and intended to include
such additions, deletions, or amendments. Whenever such additions,
deletions, or amendments to the Code shall be adopted, they shall
thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the
loose-leaf book containing said Code as amendments and supplements
thereto.
The Clerk of the City of Nashua, pursuant to
law, shall cause to be published, in the manner required by law, a
copy of this Adoption Ordinance. Sufficient copies of the Code shall
be maintained in the office of the Clerk for inspection by the public
at all times during regular office hours. 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.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk, or someone
authorized and directed by the Clerk, to keep up-to-date the certified
copy of the book containing the Code required to be filed in the Clerk's
office for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all legislation
adopted subsequent to the effective date of this codification which
shall be adopted specifically as part of the Code shall, when finally
adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new
ordinances 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
Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by the City Clerk, and the
Board of Aldermen may also arrange for procedures for the periodic
supplementation thereof.
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 Nashua to be misrepresented
thereby. Anyone violating this section or any part of this ordinance
shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $1,000.
This legislation shall not effect violations
of any other ordinance, code or regulation of the municipality existing
prior to the effective date hereof, and any such violation shall be
governed and shall continue to be punishable to the full extent of
the law under the provisions of those ordinances, codes or regulations
in effect at the time the violation was committed.
A.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances and resolutions
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
and resolutions. It is the intention of the Board of Aldermen that
all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances
and resolutions so changed had been previously formally amended to
read as such.
