ADOPTING ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE NO. 03-15-22
TOWNSHIP OF SPAULDING
SAGINAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
ADOPTED: March 15, 2022
PUBLICATION DATE: March 23, 2022
EFFECTIVE: March 24, 2022
An ordinance of the Township of Spaulding, Saginaw County, Michigan, to protect the health, safety and general welfare of Spaulding Township through the enaction of a Code of Ordinances, to revise, amend, restate, codify, and compile certain existing general ordinances of the Township of Spaulding dealing with subjects embraced in such code of ordinances, to provide a name for this Ordinance, to provide a Purpose of this Ordinance, to provide that pending proceedings are not affected, to provide for severability, to repeal all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith, to provide for an Effective Date, to declare an emergency measure, and to direct the publication of this Ordinance or a legally-permissible summary.
WHEREAS, the Spaulding Township Board of Trustees desires to amend the arrangement and classification of the present general and permanent ordinances of the Township of Spaulding to ensure the complete preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare of the Township of Spaulding and for the proper conduct of its affairs; and
WHEREAS, the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan empower and authorize the Township of Spaulding to revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Township of Spaulding has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the Township of Spaulding of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinance in book form; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for the usual daily operation of the Township of Spaulding and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare of the Township of Spaulding that this ordinance take effect at an early date.
THE TOWNSHIP OF SPAULDING SAGINAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN ORDAINS:
SECTION I
NAME
This Ordinance shall be known and cited as the "Spaulding Township Code of Ordinances Adopting Ordinance."
SECTION II
PURPOSE
In the interest of maintaining public health, safety and the general welfare and the comfort and repose of Spaulding Township residents, businesses, proprietors and property owners Spaulding Township hereby provides for the revising, amending, restating, codifying and compiling certain existing general ordinances of the Township of Spaulding dealing with subjects embraced in such code of ordinances. The matters discussed herein are matters closely affecting the public interest. The public interest requires that the Township's Code of Ordinances be appropriately and comprehensively codified.
SECTION III
CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES
The general ordinances of the Township of Spaulding as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the Township of Spaulding," which may be amended by the Township Board from time-to-time.
SECTION IV
TITLES OF CODE OF ORDINANCES
The Code of Ordinances of the Township of Spaulding shall consist of the following titles, which may be amended by the Township Board from time-to-time:
a) General Provisions.
b) Administration.
c) Public Works.
d) Traffic Code.
e) General Regulations.
f) Business Regulations.
g) General Offenses.
h) Land Usage.
i) Special Ordinances.
SECTION V
INCORPORATION AND REPEAL
All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in the Code of Ordinances of the Township of Spaulding shall be deemed incorporated in the Code of Ordinances of the Township of Spaulding by reference as though each were fully restated therein and further repealed from the Ordinances' prior codification and classification after the effective date of this ordinance except as the Ordinances are included and re-ordained in whole or in part in such Code; provided, such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, 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, vacating or setting the boundaries of streets or other public places; nor shall such repeal affect any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained in or covered by the Code.
SECTION VI
FORCE AND EFFECT
The Code of Ordinances of the Township of Spaulding shall be in full force and effect as provided herein, and such 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.
SECTION VII
PENDING PROCEEDINGS NOT AFFECTED
Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance hereby repealed as cited herein; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this ordinance.
SECTION VIII
SEVERABILITY
Should any section, clause or provision of this Ordinance be declared to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the same shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole or any other part thereof other than the parts so declared to be invalid. The Spaulding Township Board of Trustees hereby declares that it would have enacted this Ordinance even without whatever provision may be declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION IX
REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION X
EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance and the rules, regulations, provisions, requirements, orders and matters established and adopted hereby shall take effect the day following publication as required by law following adoption by the Township Board.
SECTION XI
EMERGENCY MEASURE
This ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health, safety and general welfare of the people of the Township of Spaulding and shall take effect at the earliest date provided by law.
SECTION XII
TOWNSHIP PUBLICATION
The Township Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to cause this Ordinance to be published, either in full or in the form of a legally-permitted summary, in a newspaper of general circulation within Spaulding Township.
This Ordinance is hereby declared to have been adopted by the Spaulding Township Board of Trustees, County of Saginaw, State of Michigan, at a regular meeting held on the 15th day of March 2022 and ordered to be given publication in the manner prescribed by law.
/s/ Ed Masters
ED MASTERS, Supervisor
/s/ Mark Seamon
MARK SEAMON, Clerk
Date of Publication: March 23, 2022.
Newspaper: Birch Run/Bridgeport Herald.
CERTIFICATION
ADOPTED
YEAS:
/s/
NAYS:
None
ABSENT:
None
State of Michigan, County of Saginaw,
I, the undersigned Township Clerk for the Township of Spaulding, Saginaw County, Michigan, certify that the above Ordinance No. 03-15-22, adopted by the Township Board of Trustees of the Township on the 15th day of March 2022, was recorded in full in the Minutes of the Meeting of the Township Board of Trustees on said date. It was signed by the Supervisor and Clerk of the Township.
Dated: March 15, 2022.
/s/ Mark Seamon
MARK SEAMON, Clerk