ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 40-98

AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE THE 1998 CODIFIED ORDINANCES.

   WHEREAS, a determination has been made that the ordinances of the City of Bucyrus of a permanent and general nature should be recodified, and

   WHEREAS, the City has heretofore entered into a contract with the Walter H. Drane Company to prepare and publish such recodification, and

   WHEREAS, the recodification of such ordinance, together with the new matter to be adopted, the matters to be amended and those to be repealed are before the Council,

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BUCYRUS, STATE OF OHIO, three-fourths of all members elected thereto concurring:

   SECTION 1. That the ordinances of the City of Bucyrus, Ohio, of a general and permanent nature, as revised, recodified, rearranged and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections within the 1998 Codified Ordinances of the City of Bucyrus, Ohio, are hereby approved and adopted.

   SECTION 2. That the provisions of this Ordinance, including all provisions of the Codified Ordinances, shall be in full force and effect as provided in Section 3 of this Ordinance. All ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof enacted prior to January 1, 1998, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this Ordinance. However, the enactment of the Codified Ordinances shall not be construed to affect a right or liability accrued or incurred under any legislative provisions prior to the effective date of such enactment, or an action or proceeding for the enforcement of such right or liability. Such enactment shall not be construed to relieve any person from punishment for an act committed in violation of any such legislative provision, nor to affect an indictment or prosecution therefor. For such purposes, any such legislative provision shall continue in full force notwithstanding its repeal for the purpose of revision and recodification.

   SECTION 3. That this Ordinance shall be and remain in full force and effect from and after its passage, legal publication and the earliest period allowed by law.

PASSED this 16 day of June, 1998 .

Randy L. Tidaback

President of Council

ATTEST: Regina H. Zornes

Clerk of Council

Approved this 17th day of, June, 1998.

Douglas E. Wilson  

Mayor

CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY UNIT

Comparative Section Table

Tables of Special Ordinances

CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF BUCYRUS

         PART ONE - Administrative Code

         PART THREE - Traffic Code

         PART FIVE - General Offenses Code

         PART SEVEN - Business Regulation Code

         PART NINE - Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code

         PART ELEVEN - Planning and Zoning Code

         PART THIRTEEN - Building Code

         PART FIFTEEN - Fire Prevention Code