ADOPTING ORDINANCES

ORDINANCE 96-22

   BY: MAYOR CRAIG A. KENLEY

   ENACTING AS AN ORDINANCE, A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF NEW LEBANON, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE MUNICIPALITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SAID CODE.

   WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the Municipality of New Lebanon are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the Municipality; and

   WHEREAS, the Acts of the State Legislature of the State of Ohio empower and authorize the Municipal Legislative Body of this Municipality to revise, amend, restate, codify and to compile any existing ordinance or ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate said ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

   WHEREAS, THE Legislative Body of the Municipality of New Lebanon has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the Municipality of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.

   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Legislative Body of the Municipality of New Lebanon that:

   Section 1. The general ordinances of the Municipality of New Lebanon as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the Municipality of New Lebanon.”

   Section 2. Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:

         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

         Tables of Special Ordinances

         Parallel References

         Index

   Section 3. All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and re-ordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of said Code, 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, naming or vacating or setting the boundaries of streets, alleys or other public places, nor to any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained therein.

   Section 4. Said Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the Municipal Legislative Body and Director of Finance of the Municipality of New Lebanon is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the Director of Finance.

   Section 5. Said Code shall be in full force and effective 20 days from the date of its publication and filing thereof in the Office of the Director of Finance, and said 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.

   Passed this    4th day of June , 1996.

   First Reading:   May 7, 1996

   Second Reading:   May 21, 1996

   Third Reading:   June 4, 1996

   Approved:   Craig Kenley /s/

         Mayor

   Attest:      E. Karen Grimmett /s/

         Director of Finance and Records

   CERTIFICATE

   I, E. Karen Grimmett, Director of Finance and Records for the Municipality of New Lebanon, Ohio do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance 96-22 as passed by Council and approved by the Mayor and that the same has been published as required by Section 2.18 of the Charter of the Municipality of New Lebanon.

   E. Karen Grimmett /s/

   Director of Finance and Records