ADOPTING ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE 1993-13
ENACTING AS AN ORDINANCE, A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF RISING SUN REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SAID CODE.
WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the City of Rising Sun are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Acts of the State Legislature of the State of Indiana empower and authorize the City Legislative Body of this City 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 City of Rising Sun has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the City of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RISING SUN, INDIANA, THAT:
SECTION 1. The general ordinances of the City of Rising Sun as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the ”Code of Ordinances of the City of Rising Sun”.
SECTION 2. Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:
Title I General Provisions
Title III Administrations
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
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 All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not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 or 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 City Legislative Body and the Clerk of the City of Rising Sun is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the Rising Sun City Clerk, Rising Sun Municipal Utilities, Office of Ohio County Auditor and Ohio County Public Library.
SECTION 5. Said Code shall be in full force and effect four (4) weeks from the date of its last publication and filing thereof in the Office of the Rising Sun City Clerk, Rising Sun Municipal Utilities, Office of the Ohio County Auditor and Ohio County Public Library, 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 AND ADOPTED by the Common Council of the City of Rising Sun, Indiana this 6th day of January, 1994.
COMMON COUNCIL OF RISING SUN,
INDIANA:
Mark A. Guard /s/ Robert D. Lamkin /s/
Mayor Tammy J. Walton /s/
Rae Baker Gipson /s/
William H. Clifton III /s/
Norman R. Wallick /s/
ATTEST:
Mardelle Eichler /s/
Clerk-Treasurer