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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ordinances adopted on final reading and passage on or before August 8, 1977, and not contained in such Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this Ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.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 ORDINANCE NO. 281 , Series of 1978 Page 2 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. . i i ps V-P Mayor i ver l ATTEST: City Clerk Carol F,. ✓ mpf