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In interpreting and applying the provision of the code, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare. Where the provisions of the code impose greater restrictions or requirements than those of any state statute, other ordinance, resolution, or regulation, the provisions of the code shall control. Where the provisions of any statute, other ordinance, resolution, or regulation impose greater restrictions or requirements, the provisions of the statute, other ordinance, resolution, or regulation shall control.
(A) Headings of titles, chapters, sections, and divisions in the code, or in supplements to the code, are inserted into the code, and may be inserted into the supplements to the code, for the convenience of persons using the code and are not part of the legislation.
(B) Editors’s notes and/or statutory references indicating sources of sections, giving other information, or referring the statutes or to other parts of the code are inserted in the code, and may be inserted in supplements to the code, for the convenience of persons using the code and are not part of the legislation.
Three copies of the code in a bound volume shall be filed with the ordinance books in the office of the Borough Manager and shall remain there for use and examination by the public. Upon adoption, the copies shall be certified to by the Borough Manager, as provided by law, and the certified copies shall remain on file in the office of the Borough Manager, available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while the code is in effect.
(A) Any and all additions, deletions, amendments, or supplements to the code, when passed and adopted so as to indicate the intention of Borough Council to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into the code so that the references in the code shall be understood and intended to include the changes. When any and all additions, deletions, amendments, or supplements to the code shall be adopted, they shall be printed and inserted in the bound code book as amendments and supplements to it.
(B) The Borough Agent or someone authorized or directed by him or her shall keep the certified copies of the code book, which are required to be kept in the Borough Agent’s office for public use, up-to-date. All changes in the code, and all ordinances and resolutions adopted subsequent to the effective date of this code, which the Borough Council specifically adopts as part of the code, shall be included in the code book by reference until the changes or new ordinances or resolutions are printed as supplements to the code book and inserted into the code book.
(A) If any title, chapter, section, division, or part thereof of this code now enacted or subsequently amended or its application to any person or circumstances is held to be illegal, invalid, or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, that determination shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but is confined in its operation and application to the title, chapter, section, division, or part thereof determined illegal, invalid, or unconstitutional.
(B) It is the intent of the Borough Council to declare that this code would have been adopted if the illegal, invalid, or unconstitutional title, chapter, section, division, or part thereof would not have been included.
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