PRELIMINARY UNIT

ADOPTING ORDINANCES

CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON
MACOMB COUNTY, MICHIGAN
ORDINANCE NO. 310

AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE, ADOPT AND ENACT THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON, 1991, INCLUDING THE 1993, 1993-A and 1995 REPLACEMENT PAGES THEREFOR; TO REPEAL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND TO APPROVE, ADOPT AND ENACT NEW MATTER THEREIN.

THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON ORDAINS:

Section 1. The Charter Township Act (Act 359, Public Acts of 1947, as amended) and all general and permanent legislation of the Township Board enacted since 1940, as revised, codified, arranged, edited and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections, are hereby approved, adopted and enacted as and entitled the "Codified Ordinances of the Charter Township of Clinton, Michigan", published by the Justinian Publishing Company, 1991, including the 1993, 1993A and 1995 replacement pages, complete to June 25, 1995.

   One book-form copy of the Codified Ordinances shall be certified as correct by the Supervisor and the Clerk and filed with the permanent records of the Charter Township of Clinton, Michigan. A copy of the book of Codified Ordinances and this ordinance shall be kept at the Charter Township of Clinton's Clerk's office for review during normal Township business hours.

Section 2. All ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof enacted prior to June 25, 1995, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this ordinance, except as follows:

   (a)   The enactment of the Codified Ordinances shall not be construed to affect a right or liability accrued or incurred under any legislative provision 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 a prosecution therefor. For such purposes, any such legislative provision shall continue in full force notwithstanding its repeal for the purpose of revision and codification.

   (b)   The repeal provided above shall not affect:

      (1)   The grant or creation of a franchise, license, right, easement or privilege;

      (2)   The purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property;

      (3)   The appropriation or expenditure of money or promise or guarantee of payment;

      (4)   The assumption of any contract or obligation;

      (5)   The issuance and delivery of any bonds, obligations or other instruments of indebtedness;

      (6)   The levy or imposition of taxes, assessment or charges;

      (7)   The establishment, naming, vacating or grade level of any street or public way;

      (8)   The dedication of property or plat approval;

      (9)   The annexation or detachment of territory;

      (10)   Any legislation enacted subsequent to June 25, 1995.

Section 3. All sections and subsections of the Codified Ordinances with the words "Adopting Ordinance" or with no history at the end thereof are or contain new matter in the Codified Ordinances and such new matter is hereby approved, adopted and enacted, the same having been found to be necessary additions to, or modifications of, existing legislation, in the course of preparing the Codified Ordinances, in order to render the existing legislation internally consistent and consistent with State law, as well as to update technical codes adopted by the Township. A list of the titles of such sections and subsections is attached to original Ordinance No. 310 as Exhibit A.

Section 4. This ordinance and each of the various parts, sections, subsections, sentences, phrases and clauses thereof are declared to be severable and if any such part is declared invalid, the remaining portions of this ordinance shall be in full force and effect.

Section 5. This ordinance shall be deemed effective thirty (30) days after publication.

AYE:         MEMBERS Hornung, Contesti, Steiner, Sinnamon, Tomlinson.

NAY:         MEMBERS None.

ABSENT:      MEMBERS Cannon, Dedenbach.

ORDINANCE DECLARED ADOPTED.

INTRODUCED: AUGUST 7, 1995

ADOPTED: AUGUST 21, 1995

FIRST PUBLICATION: AUGUST 14, 1995

SECOND PUBLICATION: AUGUST 28, 1995

                                 /s/   Dennis C. Tomlinson         

                                 DENNIS C. TOMLINSON, CLERK

                                 CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON

CERTIFICATION

   I, DENNIS C. TOMLINSON, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 310 was duly introduced at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Charter Township of Clinton on August 7, 1995, and subsequently adopted by the Charter Township of Clinton Board of Trustees at a regular meeting held on August 21, 1995, by the following vote:

AYE:            MEMBERS CANNON, HORNUNG, STEINER, DEDENBACH,

            CONTESTI, SINNAMON, TOMLINSON.

NAY:            NONE.

ABSENT:      NONE.

   I further certify that Ordinance No. 310 was duly published in the Macomb Daily, a newspaper of general circulation in and about the Township of Clinton, Macomb County, Michigan, on August 14, 1995, and August 28, 1995.

                                       /s/   Dennis C. Tomlinson

                                       DENNIS C. TOMLINSON

                                       Clinton Township Clerk