ADOPTING ORDIANCE

AN ORDINANCE ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE, NORTH CAROLINA, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE

   WHEREAS, the present general and permanent ordinances of the Town of Carthage are inadequately arranged and classified and are insufficient in form and substance for the complete preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality and for the proper conduct of its affairs; and

   WHEREAS, the Acts of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina empower and authorize the Town of Carthage to revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

   WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners has authorized general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the Town of Carthage of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinance in book form; and

   WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for the usual daily operation of the municipality and for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality that this ordinance take effect at an early date.

   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:

Section 1.   The general ordinances of the Town of Carthage as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the Town of Carthage, North Carolina.”

Section 2.   Such Code of Ordinances as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following Titles: TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS; TITLE III: ADMINISTRATION; TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS; TITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE; TITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS; TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS; TITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES; TITLE XV: LAND USAGE; TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES (Reserved); PARALLEL REFERENCES; INDEX.

Section 3.   All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in such Code of Ordinances shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in such Code; provided, such repeal shall not affect any offence committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises, or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, vacating or setting the boundaries of streets or other public places; nor shall such repeal affect any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained in or covered by the Code.

Section 4.   Such Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the Town of Carthage Board of Commissioners and the Clerk of the Town of Carthage is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of such Code of Ordinances in the Office of the Town Clerk.

Section 5.   Such Code shall be in full force and effect as provided in Section 6, and such Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested, recorded, and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.   

Section 6.   This ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health, safety and general welfare of the people of this Municipality, and shall take effect at the earliest date provided by law.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Town of Carthage Board of Commissioners on this the 18th day of October, 2010.

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                                                Tom Stewart, Mayor

[SEAL]

ATTESTED:

/s/

Melissa P. Adams, MMC Town Clerk