Sec. 1-8. Code does not affect prior offenses, rights, etc.

   (a)   Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect 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 this Code.

   (b)   The adoption of this Code shall not be interpreted as permitting any use or the continuance of any use of a structure or premises in violation of any ordinance of the city in effect on the date of adoption of this Code.

(Code 2014, § 1-8)

Sec. 1-9. Certain ordinances not affected by Code.

Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect any ordinance:

      (1)   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, or any contract or obligations assumed by the city;

      (2)   Granting any right or franchise;

      (3)   Dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way in the city;

      (4)   Making any appropriation or adopting the budget;

      (5)   Levying or imposing taxes not contained in this Code;

      (6)   Establishing or prescribing grades of streets in the city;

      (7)   Providing for local improvements and assessing taxes therefor;

      (8)   Dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the city;

      (9)   Extending or contracting the boundaries of the city or extending the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city;

      (10)   Prescribing the number, classification, benefits or compensation of any city officers or employees, or any personnel policies and procedures;

      (11)   Approving or prescribing rates, charges and fees including rates, charges and fees for permits, garbage collection service or for public utilities;

      (12)   Prescribing through streets, parking and traffic regulations, speed limits, one-way traffic, limitations on load of vehicles or loading zones;

      (13)   Calling an election;

      (14)   Regarding the comprehensive or land use plan or rezoning property;

      (15)   Authorizing street maintenance agreements;

      (16)   Which is temporary although general in effect;

      (17)   Which is special although permanent in effect;

      (18)   The purpose of which has been accomplished;

and 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 secretary's office.

(Code 2014, § 1-9)

Sec. 1-10. Effect of repeal of an ordinance.

   (a)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance repealed took effect.

   (b)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.

(Code 2014, § 1-10)

Sec. 1-11. Amendments or additions to Code.

   (a)   All ordinances passed subsequent to this Code which amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code may be numbered in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for inclusion therein. When subsequent ordinances repeal any chapter, section or subsection or any portion thereof, such repealed portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted pages. The subsequent ordinances as numbered and printed, or omitted in the case of repeal, shall be prima facie evidence of such subsequent ordinances until such time as this Code and subsequent ordinances numbered or omitted are readopted as a new Code by the city council.

   (b)   Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code shall be made by amending such provisions by specific reference to the section number of this Code in the following language: "That section _____ of the Code of Ordinances, City of Madisonville, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:…." The new provisions shall then be set out in full as desired.

   (c)   In the event a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is to be added, the following language shall be used: "That the Code of Ordinances, City of Madisonville, Texas, is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered _____ , which said section reads as follows:…." The new section shall then be set out in full as desired.

   (d)   All sections, articles, chapters or provisions of this Code desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed by section, division, article or chapter number, as the case may be.

(Code 2014, § 1-11)

Sec. 1-12. Supplementation of Code.

   (a)   By contract or by city personnel, supplements to this Code shall be prepared and printed whenever authorized or directed by the city. A supplement to the Code shall include substantive permanent and general parts of ordinances adopted during the period covered by the supplement and all changes made thereby in the Code. The pages of a supplement shall be so numbered that they will fit properly into the Code and will, where necessary, replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete, and the new pages shall be so prepared that, when they have been inserted, the Code will be current through the date of the adoption of the latest ordinance included in the supplement.

   (b)   In preparing a supplement to this Code, all portions of the Code that have been repealed shall be excluded from the Code by the omission thereof from reprinted pages.

   (c)   When preparing a supplement to this Code, the codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement) may make formal, nonsubstantive changes in ordinances and parts of ordinances included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them into a unified code. For example, the codifier may:

      (1)   Organize the ordinance material into appropriate subdivisions;

      (2)   Provide appropriate catchlines, headings and titles for sections and other subdivisions of the Code printed in the supplement, and make changes in such catchlines, headings and titles;

      (3)   Assign appropriate numbers to sections and other subdivisions to be inserted in the Code and, where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or other subdivision numbers;

      (4)   Change the words "this ordinance" or words of the same meaning to "this chapter," "this article," "this division," etc., as the case may be, or to "sections _____ to _____" (inserting section numbers to indicate the sections of the Code which embody the substantive sections of the ordinance incorporated into the Code); and

      (5)   Make other nonsubstantive changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance sections inserted into the Code; but in no case shall the codifier make any change in the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement or already embodied in the Code.

(Code 2014, § 1-12)