(A) Nothing in this code or the ordinance adopting this code shall be construed to repeal or otherwise affect the validity of any of the following when not inconsistent with this code:
(1) Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the effective date of such code;
(2) Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the city, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the city or any evidence of the city’s indebtedness;
(3) Any contract or obligation assumed by the city;
(4) Any right or franchise granted by the city;
(5) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way in the city;
(6) Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for streets in the city;
(7) Any appropriation ordinance providing for the levy of taxes or for adopting an annual budget;
(8) Any ordinance relating to local improvements and assessments therefor;
(9) Any ordinance annexing territory to the city or discontinuing territory as a part of the city;
(10) Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the city;
(11) Any ordinance or resolution establishing or amending personnel rules or regulations;
(12) Any ordinance prescribing subdivision regulations;
(13) Any ordinance or resolution prescribing taxicab passenger rates;
(14) Ordinances prescribing traffic regulations for specific streets, such as ordinances establishing speed limits or designating one-way streets, no parking areas, truck routes, stop intersections, intersections where traffic is to be controlled by signals, etc.
(15) Any ordinance establishing or amending zoning or land use regulations or the zoning map or rezoning property;
(16) Any ordinance calling municipal elections or prescribing the manner of conducting the election in accordance with state law;
(17) Any ordinance prescribing any fee or payment of money to the city;
(18) Any ordinance prescribing the number, classification, benefits or compensation of any city officers or employees;
(19) Any ordinance which is temporary although general in effect;
(20) Any ordinance which is special although permanent in effect;
(21) Any ordinance containing any administrative provision.
(B) All such ordinances are hereby recognized as continuing in full force and effect to the same extent as if set out at length in this code. Such ordinances are on file in the City Clerk’s office.
(1989 Code, § 1-9)
Statutory reference:
Authority to omit ordinances from printing of code, see G.S. § 160A-77(a)