79-O-13ORDINANCE NO. 71-0-13
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA,
ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF
CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN, EXCEPT
AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING FOR THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF; AND PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF
AMENDING SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances consisting of Chapters 1 to 19,
each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "Code of Ordinances,
City of Edgewater, Florida. " Such Code shall be treated and considered as a
new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all other
general and permanent ordinances passed by the City Council on or before
June 26, 1978, to the extent provided in Section 2 hereof.
SECTION 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in full force and
effect from and after the effective date and all ordinances of a general and
permanent nature enacted on or before June 26, 1978, and not included in such
Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby
repealed from and after the effective date except as hereinafter provided. No
resolution of the City, not specifically mentioned, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not
affect any of the following:
(a) 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 such Code;
(b) Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment of money
for the City or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City
or any evidence of the City's indebtedness;
(c) Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
(d) Any right or franchise granted by the City;
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(e) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating,
opening, widening, paving, etc., any street or public way in the
City;
(f) Any appropriation ordinance; or any ordinance levying or assess-
ing taxes;
(g) Any ordinance which, by its own terms, is effective only for a
stated or limited time;
(h) Any ordinance providing for local improvements and assessing
the cost thereof;
(i) Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any subdivision plat, or
regulating the subdividing or platting of property;
(j) Any ordinance or resolution not in conflict herewith designating
one-way streets, stop or yield right-of-way intersections, inter-
sections at which traffic -control signals are to be installed,
parking spaces, spaces in which the parking of vehicles is pro-
hibited or limited, intersections at which the turning of vehicles
is prohibited, restricted or regulated, or any other ordinance
regulattng traffic or the operation, stopping, parking or standing
of vehicles on specific streets or portions thereof or in specific
areas of the City;
(k) Any ordinance describing offenses in the nature of misdemeanors
not in conflict with, repugnant to, or preempted by, the laws of
the State;
(1) Any zoning ordinance;
(m) Any ordinance annexing territory to the City or discontinuing
territory as part of the City;
(n) Any ordinance prescribing salaries or wages of City officers or
employees;
(o) Any ordinance enacted after June 26, 1978.
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SECTION 4. That whenever in such Code an act is prohibited or is
made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or
whenever in such Code the doing of any act is required or the failure to do
any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided,
therefor, the violation of such provision of such Code shall be punishable
as provided by general law and Section 1-8 of such Code.
SECTION 5. That any and all additions and amendments to such Code,
when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to
make the same a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such
Code so that reference to the Code of Ordinances shall be understood and
intended to include such additions and amendments.
SECTION 6. That in case of the amendment of any section of such Code
for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section
1-8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such amendment
contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general
penalty, is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so
provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended,
unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
SECTION 7. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office
of the City Clerk preserved in looseleaf form or in such other form as the City
Council may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the City
Clerk, or someone authorized by the Clerk to insert in their designated places
all amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the City Council
to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or
reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which
may be from time to time repealed by the City Council. This copy of such
Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.
SECTION 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to change or
amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of such Code, or to
insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such
Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City to be
misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this section shall be punished
as provided in Section 4 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 9. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances and all
resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict herewith be and the same are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. That this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its adoption by the City Council and approval as provided by law.
SECTION 11. The City Clerk is hereby directed to advertise this
ordinance as required bylaw.
The first reading of the above Ordinance is read in full and passed by
vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida, at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the ) l day of 1979, and
approved as provided by law.
The second reading of said Ordinance to be at a
meeting of the City Council to be held on theo2/ day of 1979.
Roll call vote being as follows: /%
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This Ordinance prepared by:
JUDSON I. WOODS, JR.
City Attorney