A. The adoption and enactment of this code shall not be construed to repeal or in any way affect or modify:
1. Any special or temporary ordinance.
2. Any ordinance making an appropriation.
3. Any ordinance affecting any bond issue or by which any bond issue may have been authorized.
4. The continued existence and operation of any agency, department or office heretofore legally established or held.
5. Any bond of any public officer.
6. Any taxes, fees, assessments or other charges incurred or imposed.
7. Tax levy ordinances.
8. Ordinances relating to boundaries and annexations.
9. Franchise ordinances and other ordinances granting special rights to persons or corporations.
10. Contract ordinances and ordinances authorizing the execution of a contract or the issuance of warrants.
11. Ordinances establishing, naming or vacating streets, alleys or other public places.
12. Improvement ordinances.
13. Ordinances relating to elections.
14. Ordinances relating to the transfer or acceptance of real estate by or from the city.
15. All special ordinances.
B. All ordinances, rights and obligations set forth in subsection A of this section shall continue and exist in all respects as if this code had not been adopted and enacted.
C. The repeal of prior ordinances provided in section 1-2-1 of this chapter shall not affect any act done, or any cause of action accrued or established, or any plea, defense, bar or matter subsisting before the time when such repeal takes effect.
D. All the provisions of the ordinances repealed by section 1-2-1 of this chapter shall be deemed to have remained in force from the time they became effective so for as they may apply to any department, agency, office or trust, or to any transaction, event, limitation, right or obligation, or to the construction of any contract already affected by such ordinances, notwithstanding the repeal of such provisions.
E. No fine, forfeiture or penalty incurred under ordinances existing prior to the time this code takes effect shall be affected by repeal of such existing ordinances, and the recovery of such fines and forfeitures and the enforcement of such penalties shall be effected as if the ordinance repealed had remained in effect.
F. Where an offense was committed prior to the time this code takes effect, the offender shall be punished under the ordinance in effect when the offense was committed.
G. No ordinance which heretofore has been repealed shall be revived by the repeals provided in section 1-2-1 of this chapter.
H. The repeal by section 1-2-1 of this chapter of any ordinance validating previous acts, contracts of transaction shall not affect the validity of such acts, contracts or transactions, but the same shall remain as valid as if there had been no such repeal.
I. If any provision of this code enacted by this ordinance and derived from an ordinance which amended or repealed a preexisting ordinance is held unconstitutional, the provision of section 1-2-1 of this chapter shall not prevent the preexisting ordinance from being law if that appears to have been the intention of the city council or the people. (1964 Code)