ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 432

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE CITY OF CASCADE LOCKS MUNICIPAL CODE AS REVISED, REFORMATTED, INDEXED, CODIFIED, COMPILED AND EDITED.

   WHEREAS, the present general and permanent ordinances of the City of Cascade Locks 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 Oregon empower and authorize the political subdivision to revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinance into one ordinance in book form; and

   WHEREAS, American Legal Publishing, in its efforts to promote better and more efficient municipal government, is willing to undertake the codification of the City's ordinances;

   THE CITY OF CASCADE LOCKS, HOOD RIVER COUNTY, OREGON, ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1. The general ordinances of the City of Cascade Locks as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances for the City of Cascade Locks, State of Oregon".

   SECTION 2. Such Code of Ordinances as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following Titles as Shown on Exhibit A.

   SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of the Code is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Code. The Council declares that it would have passed this Code, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases have been declared invalid or unconstitutional, and if for any reason this Code should be declared invalid or unconstitutional, then the original ordinance or ordinances shall be in full force and effect.

   SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect on the 30th day following its enactment.

FIRST READING by the City Council this 24th day of March, 2014.

SECOND READING AND ADOPTED by the City Council this 14th day of April, 2014.

ATTEST:       Kathy Woosley /s/      Tom Cramblett /s/

         City Recorder         Mayor

Ayes 7;

Nays 0.