0305 (Code of Ordinances)ORDINANCE NO. -30-
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF ORDI-
NANCES OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA;
ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED
THEREIN; THE MANNER OF AMENDING SUCH CODE
OF ORDINANCES; A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
THEREOF; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OKEECHO-
BEE, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The accompanying Code of Ordinances, consisting
of Chapters 1 through 21, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted
as the "Code of Ordinances, City of Okeechobee, Florida, " and shall be
treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance
which shall supersede all other general and permanent ordinances passed
by the City on or before January 2, 1962, except such as by reference
thereto are expressly saved from repeal or continued in force and effect
for any purpose.
Section 2. All provisions of such Code shall be in full force
and effect from and after the promulgation of this ordinance for thirty
days in the official journal of the City of Okeechobee; and all ordinances
of a general and permanent nature of the City enacted on final passage on
or before January 2, 1962, and not in such Code or recognized and continued
in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the
effective date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided. No
resolution of the City, not specifically mentioned, is hereby repealed.
Section 3. The repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall
not affect any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture
incurred or any right or contract established or accruing before the
effective date of this ordinance; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance
or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money by the
City, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds or any evidence of the
City's indebtedness, or any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
nor shall such repeal affect the administrative ordinances or resolutions
of the City Council, not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of
such Code; nor shall such repeal affect any right of franchise granted by
any ordinance or resolution of the City Council or any preceding governing
body to any person, firm or corporation; nor shall such repeal affect any
ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening,
paving, widening or vacating any street or public way in the City; nor
shall such repeal affect the annual budget or appropriation ordinance or
resolution; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance establishing and
prescribing the street grades of any street in the city; nor shall such repeal
affect any ordinance levying taxes; nor shall such repeal affect any ordi-
nance providing for local improvements and assessing taxes therefor;
nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance prescribing regulations for the
platting of lands or establishing subdivisions or dedicating or accepting
any plat or subdivision in the City; nor shall such repeal affect any
ordinances of the City granting to railroad companies the right to construct
spur railroad tracks in the City; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance
authorizing any encroachment on any city or public property; nor shall
such repeal affect any ordinance or Code or parts thereof adopted by
reference by any section of such Code and not included herein; nor shall
such repeal affect any ordinance prescribing traffic regulations for specific
locations, not inconsistent with such Code; nor shall such repeal be
construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed
by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by this ordinance.
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Section 4. Any and all additions or amendments to such Code,
when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council
to make the same a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in
such Code so that reference to the "Code of Ordinances, City of Okeecho-
bee, Florida" shall be understood and intended to include all such
additions and amendments.
Section 5. A copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the
office of the City Clerk in looseleaf form. It shall be the express duty
of the City Clerk or someone authorized by him to insert in their designated
places all amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the
City Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have
been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code
all provisions which may be from time to time repealed by the City
Council. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring
to examine the same.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partner-
ship, association, organization or corporation to violate or fail to comply
with any provision of the Code of Ordinances, City of Okeechobee, Florida,
and where no specific penalty is provided, therein, the violation of any
provision of such Code shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1 -8 of
such Code.
Section 7. In case of the amendment of any section of such Code
for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in
Section 1 -8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case
such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the
aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in the same
chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to
relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically
repealed therein.
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Section 8. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation in the City to change or amend by additions or deletions any
part or portion of such Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions
thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever
which will cause the law of the City of Okeechobee to be misrepresented
thereby. Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be
punished as provided in Section 1 -8 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Okeechobee, Florida.
Section 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective on the
thirtieth day after its final passage.
day of
ATTEST:
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council this
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Ci y Clerk
, 1962.
President o City Council
Approved by me this / day of May, 1962.
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Mayor