ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 766

AN ORDINANCE ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF LYONS, NEBRASKA, AND REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SUCH CODE OF ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF SAID CODE IN BOOK FORM.

WHEREAS, Nebraska law empowers and authorizes the City to revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

WHEREAS, Nebraska law authorizes a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the City of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinance in book form;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYONS, NEBRASKA:

   Section 1.   The general ordinances of the City as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the City of Lyons, Nebraska.”

   Section 2.   Such Code of Ordinances as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following Titles:

TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE III: ADMINISTRATION

TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS

TITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE

TITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS

TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS

TITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES

TITLE XV: LAND USAGE

TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES

PARALLEL REFERENCES

   Section 3.   All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in such Code of Ordinances shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in such Code; provided, such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises, or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, vacating or setting the boundaries of streets or other public places; nor shall such repeal affect any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained in or covered by the Code.

   Section 4.   Such Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the City Council and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of such Code of Ordinances in the Office of the Clerk.

   Section 5.   Such Code shall be in full force and effect as provided in Section 6, and such Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested, recorded, and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.

   Section 6.   This ordinance shall be in full force and take effect from and after its passage, approval, and publication in book form according to law.

Passed and approved this 21st day of May 2024.

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Kyle Brink, Mayor

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ATTEST: Whitney Anderson, City Clerk

(Seal)