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202.06   CONFLICTS OF LAWS.
   (a)   All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the Municipality, and all parts of the same, enacted prior to the date of the adoption of these Codified Ordinances and inconsistent or in conflict with any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed, save and except any ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, or part of the same, expressly excepted from repeal by the ordinance that adopts these Codified Ordinances. No ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, or part of the same, of the Municipality, that is not inconsistent or in conflict with any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances and/or that can be reasonably interpreted to be compatible with the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, shall be deemed to be repealed by the adoption of these Codified Ordinances. Such ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations, and all parts of the same, shall continue to be viable and enforceable by the Municipality.
   (b)   In the event of a conflict between any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, or between any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances and a provision of any standard code adopted by the Municipality pursuant to Ohio R.C. 731.231 or a Municipal Charter, the provision that establishes the higher or stricter standard shall control. In the event of a conflict between any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances and any provision of State law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to State law, the State law, rule or regulation shall control if it is of a kind required to be in conformity with State law by Article XVIII, Section 3, of the Ohio Constitution; otherwise, the provision of these Codified Ordinances shall control.
   (c)   If there is a conflict between figures and words in expressing a number, the words govern.
(ORC 1.46)
   (d)   If a general provision conflicts with a special or local provision, they shall be construed, if possible, so that effect is given to both. If the conflict between the provisions is irreconcilable, the special or local provision prevails as an exception to the general provision, unless the general provision is the later adoption and the manifest intent is that the general provision prevail.
(ORC 1.51)
   (e)   If ordinances enacted at different meetings of Council are irreconcilable, the ordinance latest in date of enactment prevails.
   (f)   If amendments to the same ordinance are enacted at different meetings of Council, one amendment without reference to another, the amendments are to be harmonized, if possible, so that effect may be given to each. If the amendments are substantively irreconcilable, the latest in date of enactment prevails. The fact that a later amendment restates language deleted by an earlier amendment, or fails to include language inserted by an earlier amendment, does not of itself make the amendments irreconcilable. Amendments are irreconcilable only when changes made by each cannot reasonably be put into simultaneous operation.
(ORC 1.52)
202.07   DETERMINATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
   (a)   In enacting a provision of these Codified Ordinances, it is presumed that:
      (1)   Compliance with the Constitutions of the State and of the United States is intended;
      (2)   The entire provision is intended to be effective;
      (3)   A just and reasonable result is intended;
      (4)   A result feasible of execution is intended.
(ORC 1.47)
   (b)   A provision of these Codified Ordinances is presumed to be prospective in its operation unless it is expressly made retrospective.
(ORC 1.48)
   (c)   If a provisions of these Codified Ordinances is ambiguous, the court, in determining the intention of Council, may consider, among other matters:
      (1)   The object sought to be attained;
      (2)   The circumstances under which provision was enacted;
      (3)   The legislative history;
      (4)   The common law or former legislative provisions, including laws upon the same or similar subjects;
      (5)   The consequences of a particular construction; and
      (6)   The administrative construction of the provision.
(ORC 1.49)
202.08   SEPARABILITY.
   If any provision of a section of these Codified Ordinances or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the section or related sections which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions are separable.
(ORC 1.50)
202.99   GENERAL PENALTY.
   Whenever, in these Codified Ordinances or in any ordinance of the Municipality, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, the commission or performance of such act, or the failure to commit or perform such act, as required, shall, unless another penalty is provided on a first offense, a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). On a second offense it shall be a third degree misdemeanor and the offender shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500.00) and/or a maximum sentence of 60 days. Any subsequent offenses shall be deemed a first degree misdemeanor and the offender shall be fined between zero dollars ($0) and one thousand dollars ($1,000) and/or imprisoned from 0 to 180 days for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues, unless otherwise provided.
(Ord. 2008-40. Passed 10-21-08; Ord. 2017-4. Passed 3-21-17.)