ADOPTING ORDINANCES

ORDINANCE NO. 1114

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

WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the City of Weirton 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 West Virginia empower and authorize the Legislative Body of this City 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 Legislative Body of the City of Weirton 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 ORDAINED by the Legislative Body of the City of Weirton that:

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

Section 2. Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:

   Charter

   Part I   Administrative Code

   Part III   Traffic Code

   Part V   General Offenses Code

   Part VII   Business and Taxation Code

   Part IX   Streets, Utilities, and Public Services Code

   Part XI   Health and Sanitation Code

   Part XIII   Planning and Zoning Code

   Part XV   Fire Prevention Code

   Part XVII   Building Code

   Part XIX   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 All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code, except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code, provided that such repeal shall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 City Legislative Body, and the Clerk of Weirton is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the City Clerk.

Section 5. Said Code 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 City Legislative Body of the City of Weirton, this 13th day of November, 1995

FIRST READING: October 10, 1995

PUBLICATION DATE: October 23, 1995

SECOND READING: November 13, 1995

Dean M. Harris /s/

Mayor

J. Brent Mikula /s/

City Clerk