[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Simsbury:
Art. I, 5-30-1990. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-30-1990]
The compilation of the Town Charter and ordinances of the Town of Simsbury,
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 Simsbury, Connecticut," hereinafter called the
"Code." All provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein and
known as the "Code of the Town of Simsbury" 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 Board of Selectmen.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the Town of Simsbury 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which are inconsistent with any provisions of the Code are hereby repealed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
or inland wetlands regulations of the town.
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 Simsbury 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 Simsbury by impressing thereon the Seal of the Town
of Simsbury, 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 Simsbury," or any new ordinances, when enacted or adopted in such
form as to indicate the intention of the Board of Selectmen 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 Board of Selectmen 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 Simsbury 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 Board of Selectmen subsequent
to the enactment of this ordinance 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 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 Simsbury upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Board
of Selectmen, 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 Simsbury, or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever
which will cause the legislation of the Town of Simsbury 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 Charter and ordinances for publication
as the Code of the Town of Simsbury, no changes in the meaning or intent of
such Charter or ordinances have been made. Certain grammatical changes and
other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said ordinances,
as authorized by the Board of Selectmen. It is the intention of the Board
of Selectmen that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the
ordinances had been previously formally amended to read as such.
