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(A) The repeal of a repealing statute does not revive the ordinance originally repealed nor impair the effect of any saving clause therein.
(R.C. § 1.57)
(B) The re-enactment, amendment, or repeal of an ordinance does not, except as provided in division (C) of this section:
(1) Affect the prior operation of the ordinance or any prior action taken thereunder.
(2) Affect any validation, cure, right, privilege, obligation, or liability previously acquired, accrued, accorded, or incurred thereunder.
(3) Affect any violation thereof or penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect thereto, prior to the amendment or repeal.
(4) Affect any investigation, proceeding, or remedy in respect of any privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment; and the investigation, proceeding, or remedy may be instituted, continued, or enforced, and the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment imposed, as if the ordinance had not been repealed or amended.
(C) If the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment for any offense is reduced by a re-enactment or amendment of an ordinance, the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment, if not already imposed, shall be imposed according to the ordinance as amended.
(R.C. § 1.58)
(D) An ordinance which is re-enacted or amended is intended to be a continuation of the prior ordinance and not a new enactment, so far as it is the same as the prior ordinance.
(R.C. § 1.54)
(A) Wherever in a penalty section reference is made to a violation of a section or an inclusive group of sections, or of divisions or subdivisions of a section, such reference shall be construed to mean a violation of any provision of the section, sections, divisions or subdivisions included in the reference.
(B) References in the code to action taken or authorized under designated sections of the code include, in every case, action taken or authorized under the applicable legislative provision which is superseded by this code.
(R.C. § 1.23)
(C) A reference to any portion of a provision of this code applies to all re-enactments or amendments thereof.
(R.C. § 1.55)
(D) If a section refers to a series of numbers or letters, the first and the last numbers or letters are included.
(R.C. § 1.56)
(E) Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, the reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, recodified, or renumbered, unless the subject matter has been changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
(A) If a general provision conflicts with a special or local provision, they shall be construed, if possible, so that effect is given to both. If the conflict between the provisions is irreconcilable, the special or local provision prevails as an exception to the general provision, unless the general provision is the later adoption and the manifest intent is that the general provision prevail.
(R.C. § 1.51)
(B) (1) If ordinances enacted at different meetings of the Legislative Authority are irreconcilable, the ordinance latest in date of enactment prevails.
(2) If amendments to the same ordinance are enacted at different meetings of the Legislative Authority, one amendment without reference to another, the amendments are to be harmonized, if possible, so that effect may be given to each. If the amendments are substantively irreconcilable, the latest in date of enactment prevails. The fact that a later amendment restates language deleted by an earlier amendment, or fails to include language inserted by an earlier amendment, does not of itself make the amendments irreconcilable. Amendments are irreconcilable only when changes made by each cannot reasonably be put into simultaneous operation.
(R.C. § 1.52)
(C) In the event of a conflict between any of the provisions of this code, or between any of the provisions of this code and any standard code adopted by the municipality pursuant to R.C. § 731.231, the provision that establishes the higher or stricter standard shall control.
If any provisions of a section of this code or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the section or related sections which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions are severable.
(R.C. § 1.50)
Reference to a public office or officer shall be deemed to apply to any office, officer, or employee of the municipality exercising the powers, duties, or functions contemplated in the provision, irrespective of any transfer of functions or change in the official title of the functionary.
If a manifest error is discovered consisting of the misspelling of any words, the omission of any words necessary to express the intention of the provisions affected, the use of words to which no meaning can be attached, or the use of a word when another word was clearly intended to express the intention, the spelling shall be corrected, and the words supplied, omitted, or substituted shall conform with the manifest intention, and the provision shall have the same effect as though the correct words were contained in the text as originally published. No alteration shall be made or permitted if any question exists regarding the nature or extent of such error.
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