ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 139

   AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE, ADOPT AND ENACT THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF WOLVERINE LAKE, MICHIGAN, 2001; TO APPROVE, ADOPT AND ENACT NEW MATTER THEREIN; AND TO REPEAL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.

   WHEREAS, Council has had the matter of codification and general revision of the legislation of the Village before it for some time; and

   WHEREAS, it has heretofore entered into a contract with The Justinian Publishing Company to prepare and publish such codification; and

   WHEREAS, the codification of such legislation, together with the new matter to be adopted, the matters to be amended and those to be repealed, is now before the Council; NOW, THEREFORE:

   THE VILLAGE OF WOLVERINE LAKE ORDAINS:

   Section 1. All general and permanent legislation enacted by the legislative authority of the Village through July 10, 2001, as revised, codified, arranged, edited and consolidated into component codes, titles, chapters and sections, is hereby approved, adopted and enacted as the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Wolverine Lake, Michigan, 2001, complete to July 10, 2001.

   One book-form copy of the Codified Ordinances shall be certified as correct by the Village President and the Village Clerk, attached to this ordinance as a part hereof, and filed with the permanent records of the Village of Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

   Section 2. The following sections and subsections in the Codified Ordinances are or contain new matter not previously enacted by Council in its presently codified form, such new matter having been found necessary, in the course of preparing the Codified Ordinances, to reconcile Village legislation, to conform Village law with State law, to update technical codes adopted by the Village by reference, and to remove uncertainties and ambiguities in the legislative record with respect to numbering and passage of legislation, and such new matter is hereby approved, adopted and enacted:

      202.01 to 202.03,
      202.07 to 202.09,
      202.99, 204.01,
      238.03, 276.06,
      410.01 to 410.04,
      410.99, 420.99,
      430.04, 430.11,
      440.05, 602.03,
      650.02, 650.08,
      650.99, 658.02,
      658.03, 674.04
      680.02, 680.03,
      680.06(a), 680.07, 694.07,
      694.99, 840.04,
      840.10, 840.99
      850.03, 1020.01,
      1020.02, 1022.02
      1022.99, 1040.09,
      1062.99,
      1420.01 to 1420.04
      1420.99, 1424.99,
      1440.01, 1466.01,
      1472.99(a), 1474.99,
      1610.01

   Section 3. All ordinances and resolutions or parts thereof enacted prior to July 10, 2001, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Codified Ordinances, including the new matter approved, adopted and enacted by Section 2 of this ordinance, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this ordinance, except as follows:

   (a)   The enactment of the Codified Ordinances shall not be construed to affect a right or liability accrued or incurred under any legislative provision prior to the effective date of such enactment, or an action or proceeding for the enforcement of such right or liability. Such enactment shall not be construed to relieve any person from punishment for an act committed in violation of any such legislative provision, nor to affect a prosecution or indictment therefor. For such purposes, any such legislative provision shall continue in full force notwithstanding its repeal for the purpose of revision and codification.

   (b)   The repeal provided above shall not affect:

      (1)   The grant or creation of a franchise, license, right, easement or privilege;

      (2)   The purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property;

      (3)   The appropriation or expenditure of money or promise or guarantee of payment;

      (4)   The assumption of any contract or obligation;

      (5)   The issuance and delivery of any bonds, obligations or other instruments of indebtedness;

      (6)   The levy or imposition of taxes, assessments or charges;

      (7)   The establishment, naming, vacating or grade level of any street or public way;

      (8)   The dedication of property or plat approval;

      (9)   The annexation or detachment of territory.

   Section 4. This ordinance is hereby declared to have been adopted by the Village of Wolverine Lake Village Council at a meeting thereof duly called and held on the 13th day of March, 2002 and the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby ordered to take effect immediately.

I hereby certify the foregoing constitutes a true and complete copy of Ordinance Number 139, duly adopted by the Village Council of the Village of Wolverine Lake, County of Oakland, Michigan, at a regular meeting held on March 13, 2002 at which the following members were present:

Wilner, Vickers, Kempf, Renwick, Gualdoni, Smith, Donnelly
                                                                                                                                         
and that said meeting was conducted and public notice of said meeting was given pursuant to, and in full compliance with, the Open Meetings Act, being Act 267, Public Acts of Michigan 1976, as amended, and that the minutes of said meeting were kept and will be or have been available as required by said Act.

I further certify that member Gualdoni moved for adoption of said Ordinance and that member Vickers seconded the motion.

I further certify that the following members voted for adoption of said Ordinance:

Wilner, Donnelly, Vickers, Renwick, Smith, Kempf, Gualdoni
                                                                                                                                          
and that the following members voted against such Ordinance:
None
                                                                                                                                           
I further certify that said Ordinance has been recorded in the Ordinance Book of the Village of Wolverine Lake and that such recording has been authenticated by the signatures of the Village President and Village Clerk.

________________________________      /s/ Rita Irwin                      
David W. Wilner, Village President         Rita Irwin, Village Clerk

I do hereby certify that a synopsis of this Ordinance, in accordance with statutory and charter provisions, was published on March 20, 2002 in the Spinal Column, a copy of which is attached hereto.

/s/ Rita Irwin
Rita Irwin, Village Clerk