ADOPTING ORDINANCES

ORDINANCE 1993-4-1

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

WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the Town of Sheridan are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the town; and

WHEREAS, the Acts of the State Legislature of the State of Indiana empower and authorize the Town 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 Town Council of the Town of Sheridan has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the town of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Sheridan that:

Section 1. The general ordinances of the Town of Sheridan as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the Town of Sheridan."

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 All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not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 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 Town Council and the Clerk of the Town of Sheridan is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the Town Clerk.

Section 5. Said Code shall be in full force and effect     weeks from the date of its publication and filing thereof in the Office of the Clerk, 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 Town Council of the Town of Sheridan, this     day of        , 19  .

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