[Adopted 12-8-1992 by Ord. No. 92-36]
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The City Council of the City of
Colonial Heights, Virginia, hereby ordains as follows:
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Editor's Note: For state law as to the authority
of the City to codify ordinances in loose-leaf form and admissibility
thereof in evidence, see Code of Virginia, § 15.2-1433.
There is hereby adopted by the City Council that certain Code entitled the "Code of the City of Colonial Heights, Virginia," containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature as revised, compiled, consolidated, codified and indexed in Chapters 1 to 286, both inclusive, of which Code not fewer than three copies have been and are now filed in the office of the City Clerk and shall there be available to the public for inspection and use during all regular business hours.
The provisions of such Code shall be in force
on and after January 1, 1993, and all ordinances of a general and
permanent nature adopted on final reading and passage on or before
October 10, 1991, and not contained in such Code are hereby repealed,
effective January 1, 1993, except as hereinafter provided.
The repeal provided for in the preceding section
of this ordinance shall not affect any offense or act committed or
done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right
established or accruing before January 1, 1993; nor shall such repeal
affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any judgment
rendered prior to January 1, 1993; nor shall such repeal affect any
ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money
by or for the City or authorizing the issue of any bonds of the City
or any evidence of the City's indebtedness or any contract or obligation
assumed by the City; nor shall it affect any annual tax levy; nor
shall it affect any right or franchise conferred by ordinance or resolution
of the City Council on any person or corporation; nor shall it affect
any ordinance adopted for purposes which have been consummated; nor
shall it affect any ordinance which is temporary, although general
in effect, or special, although permanent in effect; nor shall it
affect any of the following ordinances or any amendments thereto:
A.
Any appropriation ordinance.
B.
Any ordinance levying or imposing taxes.
C.
Any ordinance providing for any public improvement.
D.
Any ordinance making any assessment.
E.
Any ordinance opening, accepting, relocating, closing,
vacating, altering or naming any streets, alleys, easements or rights-of-way.
F.
Any ordinance relative to salaries, wages or compensation
or bonds of City officers and employees or of members or employees
of City boards or commissions.
G.
Any ordinance relative to annexation of territory
to the City or relative to the change, expansion or contraction of
the corporate boundaries of the City.
H.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to Ord. No. 91-24.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of
the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this ordinance and of the Code are severable, and if
any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance
or such Code shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the
valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance
or of such Code.
Three copies of the Code shall be filed in the
office of the City Clerk and be made available to persons desiring
to examine the same.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
on and after January 1, 1993.
