(A) Title. This chapter shall ho known and may be cited as the “Zoning Ordinance of Putnam County Indiana”.
(B) Provisions of chapter declared to be minimum requirements. In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety and general welfare. wherever the requirements of this chapter are at variance or in any other way conflict with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations, ordinances, deed restrictions or covenants, the most restrictive, or that imposing the higher standards, shall govern.
(C) Severability. Should any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, clause, word or provision of this chapter be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
(D) Effective date. This chapter shall be effective on September 1, 1992.
(Ord. passed 7-20-1992)