ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE 96-1

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

WHEREAS, the present general circumstances of the City of Sand Point 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 Alaska empower and authorize the City Council 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 City Council of the City of Sand Point 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 ENACTED by the City Council of the City of Sand Point that:

Section 1. The general ordinances of the City of Sand Point as herein revised, amended, restate, codified, and compiled in book for are adopted as and shall constitute the Code of Ordinances of the City of Sand Point. As published by the American Legal Publishing Corporation in January of 1996.

Section 2. Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following:

Title I      General Provisions

Title II      Legislative

Title III   Administration

Title IV   Elections

Title V      Public Works

Title VI   Taxation

Title VII   Personnel

Title VIII   Acquisition and Disposal of City Property

Title IX   Reserved

Title X      Health, Sewer and Water

Title XI   Boat Harbor Facilities

Title XII   Public Safety

Title XIII   Planning and Zoning

Title XIV   Road Maintenance Service

Title XV   Parks and Recreation Services

Title XVI   Library

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   All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in said code, provided such repeal shall not affect any offense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 if granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the purchase, lease 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 street, alleys or other public places, not 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 Council and the City Clerk of the City of Sand Point is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the City Clerk. Said Clerk shall be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following its adoption and approval by the City Council.

Section 5.   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 ben given.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Sand Point this 14th day of May, 1996.

                         /s/

                        Mayor

ATTEST:

Barbara J. Wilson /s/

City Clerk

      INTRODUCTION AND 1ST READING:   2/13/96

      2ND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING:   3/12/96

      TABLED UNTIL            5/14/96