(A) There is hereby established in the town a Fund for the deposit of any grant(s) awarded to the town from the State Department of Transportation pursuant to any Local Roads and Bridges Matching Grant Agreement (the “grant agreements”) entered into between the town and the State Department of Transportation. Said Fund shall be referred to as the “Community Crossings Grant Fund.”
(B) Monies deposited in the Community Crossings Grant Fund shall be expended with appropriations only for the purposes for which the grant was awarded under the grant agreements.
(C) Any unexpended monies in said Community Crossings Grant Fund at the close of the project (as described in the applicable grant agreement) that were received from the State Department of Transportation shall be returned to the State Department of Transportation in accordance with said grant agreement.
(D) (1) The express or implied repeal or amendment by this section or any other ordinance or part of any other ordinance does not affect any rights or liabilities accrued, penalties incurred, or procedures begun prior to the effective date of this section.
(2) Those rights, liabilities, and proceedings are continued, and penalties shall be imposed and enforced under the repealed or amended section as if this section had not been adopted.
(E) (1) No part of this section shall be interpreted to conflict with any local, state, or federal laws, and all reasonable efforts should be made to harmonize same.
(2) Should any section or part thereof of this section be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the section as a whole, or any other portion thereof other than that portion so declared to be invalid, and for this purpose the provisions of this section are hereby declared to be severable.
(Ord. 2017-3, passed 10-10-2017)