Chapter 3 - Council Meetings and Ordinances
Division 2 - Ordinances
SEC. 3.2-1 PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCES: EFFECTIVE DATES: All Ordinances of the Town imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture, or making any appropriation shall (1) be printed in book or pamphlet form, published by authority of the Town Council, or (2) be published at least once, within ten days after passage, in one or more newspapers published within the Town. No such ordinance shall take effect until it is so published.
Except when otherwise required by the laws of the State and except local improvement Ordinances, and except an Ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency and is passed by a vote of at least four members of the Council, no Ordinance passed by the Council shall go into effect until ten days from the time of its passage and or publication, where publication is so required. (Amended 6/4/73)
SEC. 3.2-2 RECORD AND MEMORANDUM OF ORDINANCES REQUIRED: The Town Clerk shall record, in a book used exclusively for that purpose, all Ordinances passed by the City Council. Immediately following each Ordinance, the Town Clerk shall make a memorandum of the date of the passage and the publication, where required, of the Ordinance.
SEC. 3.2-3 RECORD AND MEMORANDUM OF ORDINANCES REQUIRED, TO BE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF CONTENTS, ETC. The record and memorandum required by the preceding Section, or a certified copy thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the contents, passage and of the publication or posting of Ordinance.
SEC. 3.2-4 PROOF OF ORDINANCES. The contents of all Town Ordinances, the date of passage and the date of publication or posting, where required, may be proved by the certificate of the Town Clerk, under the seal of the Town.
Whenever Town ordinances are printed in book or pamphlet form, and purport to be published by authority of the Town Council, such book or pamphlet shall be prima facie evidence of the contents, passage and legal publication of such ordinances, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet, in all courts and administrative tribunals.
SEC. 3.2-5 ORDINANCE TO BE SIGNED. All ordinances passed by the Town Council must be signed by the President and Town Clerk before recording.
SEC. 3.2-6 PRICE AND COST OF ORDINANCES PRINTED IN BOOK, ETC., FORM. Printed copies containing this Code and any ordinance imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment, or forfeiture or making any appropriation which may be printed in book or pamphlet form, published by authority of the Town Council shall, so long as such books or pamphlets are in supply, be available for distribution to the public.
The City Manager may impose a reasonable price commensurate with the cost of the printing thereof for the distribution of such book or pamphlet to the public. (Amended 6/2/72)
SEC. 3.2-7 EFFECT OF REPEAL OR REPEALING
ORDINANCE. When any ordinance repealing a former ordinance,
clause or provision shall be itself repealed, such repeal shall
not be construed to revive such former ordinance, clause or provision,
unless it shall be therein so expressly provided.