ADOPTING ORDINANCE 710

AN ORDINANCE TO ADOPT THE 2013 CODIFIED ORDINANCES; TO ADOPT NEW MATTER; TO REPEAL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND TO DIRECT THAT THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES BE COMPLIED WITH.

   WHEREAS, The City of Dunbar, West Virginia, has deemed it necessary to recodify the City ordinances of a permanent and general nature;

   WHEREAS, it has heretofore entered into a contract with Walter H. Drane Company to prepare and publish such codification;

   WHEREAS, the recodification of such ordinances, together with the new matter to be adopted, the matters to be amended and those to be repealed are before the Council;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 ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUNBAR:

   Section I: The ordinances of the City of Dunbar, West Virginia, of a general and permanent nature, as revised, codified, rearranged and consolidated into component codes, chapter, articles, and sections are hereby approved, adopted and enacted as the Codified Ordinances of Dunbar, West Virginia, 2013

   Section II: Pursuant to West Virginia Code 8-11-4(b):

   (a)   Notice of the proposed adoption of the Codified Ordinances shall be given by publication as provided in West Virginia Code 8-11-4(a)(2);

   (b)   Through authentication of this Ordinance the Mayor shall certify the 2013 Dunbar Codified Ordinances which shall be filed as a permanent record in the office of the City Clerk.

   Section III: The provisions of this Ordinance, including all provisions of the Codified Ordinances, shall be in full force and effect a provided by law. All ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof enacted prior to November 1, 2013, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this Ordinance except the enactment of the Codified Ordinances shall not be construed to affect a right or liability accrued or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 at committed in the violation of any such legislative provisions, nor to affect any indictment or prosecution therefor. For such purposes, any such legislative provisions shall continue in full force notwithstanding its repeal for the purpose of revision and codification.

   The attached ordinance was introduced and read for the first time at a regular meeting of City Council held on the 21st day of January, 2014 an read and adopted at a second meeting held on the 3rd day of February 2014.

TERRY GREENLEE

MAYOR

CONNIE L. FULKNIER

CITY CLERK

CONTENTS

Preliminary Unit

Comparative Section Table

CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF DUNBAR, WEST VIRGINIA

      CHARTER

      PART ONE -       Administrative Code

      PART THREE -    Traffic Code

      PART FIVE -    General Offenses Code

      PART SEVEN -    Business and Taxation Code

      PART NINE -    Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code

      PART ELEVEN -    Health and Sanitation Code

      PART THIRTEEN -    Planning and Zoning Code

      PART FIFTEEN -    Fire Prevention Code

      PART SEVENTEEN - Building and Housing Code