HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1978-0281INTRODUCED BY COUNCIPERSON DONALDSON
ORDINANCE NO. 281
Series of 1978
TITLE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO, BY CODIFYING ORDINANCE NO. 232 THROUGH 242 OF
THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, AND INCORPORATING SAID ORDINANCES
INTO THE CODE OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO, THAT:
Section 1. The Code of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, is hereby
amended by codifying Ordinance Numbers 232 through 242 of the
City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and by incorporating into said
Code of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Ordinance Numbers
232 through 242.
Section 2. The provisions of the amended Code shall be in force
and effect as provided for in Section 7 of this Ordinance, and
all ordinances adopted on final reading and passage on or before
August 8, 1977, and not contained in such Code are hereby repealed
from and after the effective date of this Ordinance, except as
hereinafter provided.
Section 3. 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 the effective date of
this Ordinance; nor shall it affect any prosecution, suit or
proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the
effective date of this Ordinance; nor shall such repeal affect
any Ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the
payment of money 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 Ordinance relating to the salaries of
the City officers or employees; nor shall it affect any ordinances
annexing territory to the City; nor shall it affect any Ordinance
naming, renaming, opening, accepting, or vacating streets or
alleys in the City; nor shall it affect any Ordinance relating
to zoning; nor shall it affect any Ordinance adopted on final
reading and passage after August 8, 1977.
Section 4. This codification of Ordinance Numbers 232 through
242 of the City of Wheat Ridge shall not affect Ordinance
Numbers 243 through 276, which were adopted after August 8,
1977. Further, it is recognized that Ordinance Numbers 243
through 276 may have an effect on the ordinances which have
been the subject of codification by the City of Wheat Ridge,
and may in effect modify the Wheat Ridge Municipal Code to
some extent.
Section 5. Whenever in the Code of the City of Wheat Ridge
any act is made or declared to be unlawful, an offense,
nuisance or misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided
therefor, any person who shall be convicted of the violation
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of any such provision of the Code adopted by this ordinance or
other Ordinance of the City or of such order, rules or regula-
tions shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred
dollars ($300) or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding ninety
days or by both fine and imprisonment. Each day any violation
of such Code or any other Ordinance of the City or any order,
rule or regulation promulgated under the provisions of such
Code or other ordinances of the City shall continue, shall
constitute a separate offense.
Section 6. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the
City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this Ordinance and the Code hereby adopted are
severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section of this Ordinance or the Code hereby adopted shall be
declared unconstitutional or otherwise 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 the Code hereby adopted.
Section 7. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect
-days after publication following final passage.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND ADOPTED on first reading by a vote of
4 to 0 on this 22nd day of May , 1978;
ordered published in full n the Wheat Ridge Sentinel and
Public Hearing and consideration on final passage set for
June 12 , 1978, at 7:30 o'clock p .m., at
Council Chambers, Anderson Building, 4355 Field Street,
Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
READ, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final
reading by a vote of 6 to 0 this 12th day of
June , 1978.
SIGNED by the Mayor on this 13th day of June , 1978.
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