Adopting Ordinance No. 9-87

Passed March 2, 1987

AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE, ADOPT AND ENACT THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, 1987, AND TO REPEAL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, AND TO PUBLISH THE ENACTMENT OF NEW MATTER.

   WHEREAS, Section 731.23 of the Ohio Revised Code provides for the publication and certification of ordinances in book form, and

   WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Grandview Heights, Ohio, has had the matter of codification and general revision of the ordinances before it for some time, and

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

   WHEREAS, the codification of such ordinances, together with the new matter to be adopted, the matters to be amended and those to be repealed are before the Council;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 ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Grandview Heights, Ohio:

Section 1. That the ordinances of the City of Grandview Heights, Ohio, of a general and permanent nature, as revised, codified, rearranged and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections are hereby approved, adopted and enacted as the Codified Ordinances of Grandview Heights, Ohio. One book-form copy of the Codified Ordinances shall be certified as correct by the Mayor and the Clerk of Council, attached to this ordinance as a part hereof, and filed with the permanent ordinance records of the City of Grandview Heights, Ohio.

Section 2. That the provisions of the Codified Ordinances shall be in full force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance. All ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof, enacted prior to March 2, 1987, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this ordinance, except as follows: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 an indictment or prosecution therefor. For such purposes, any such legislative provision shall continue in full force notwithstanding its repeal for the purpose of revision and recodification.

   (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, assessments 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 March 2, 1987.

Section 3. That the Clerk of Council shall cause to be published in a manner required by law this Adopting Ordinance together with a brief summary of new matter contained in the codification. Sections in the Codified Ordinances without any previous ordinance history indicate that section contains new matter enacted by this Adopting Ordinance.

Section 4. This ordinance shall be effective beginning 12:01 a.m., April 2, 1987.

David A. Colley

President

GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL

David B. Dudley

Mayor

Approved as to form:

Attest: Frank L. Godorhazy

Auditor/Clerk    David W. Fais

       Solicitor

CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY UNIT

Comparative Section Table

Tables of Special Ordinances

CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, OHIO

      CHARTER

      PART ONE -       Administrative Code

      PART THREE -    Traffic Code

      PART FIVE -    General Offenses Code

      PART SEVEN -    Business Regulation Code

      PART NINE -    Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code

      PART ELEVEN -    Planning and Zoning Code

      PART THIRTEEN -   Building Code

      PART FIFTEEN -    Five Prevention Code

      PART SEVENTEEN - Health Code