[Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners (now County
Council) 11-13-2012 by Ord. No.
2012-12]
The ordinances and public local laws of Cecil County of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of Cecil County and the State Legislature, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections and consisting of Chapters
1 through
365, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of Cecil County, Maryland," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
This ordinance and the Code shall supersede all other general
and permanent ordinances and resolutions enacted prior to the enactment
of this Code, which are inconsistent with the ordinances and resolutions
included in the Code.
All provisions of this ordinance of the Code shall be in full
force and effect on and after December 3, 2012.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf or post binder form shall remain
on file in the Director of Administration’s office, to be made
available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times
while the Code is in effect. Such copy shall be certified to by the
Clerk of Cecil County by impressing thereon the Seal of the County.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code,
when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of
the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to
be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Code of Cecil
County" shall be understood and intended to include such additions
and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements
to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be published as
amendments and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Director of Administration, or someone
authorized and directed by the County Executive, to keep up-to-date
the certified copy of the book containing the Code required to be
filed in the Director of Administration's office for the use of the
public. All changes in said Code and all ordinances 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 published
as supplements to said Code.
Each chapter of the Code and every part of each chapter 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 parts thereof.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions contained in the Code adopted by this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall only be to the
extent of such inconsistency, and any valid legislation of the Cecil
County which is not in conflict with the provisions of the Code shall
be deemed to remain in full force and effect.