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AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS; ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING SUCH CODE OF ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: That the accompanying revision, codification, consolidation and compilation of the ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Jonesboro, consisting of Chapters 1 through 24, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the official “Code of Ordinances of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas” and shall be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all general and permanent ordinances passed by the City Council prior to July 11, 1961, except such as by reference thereto are expressly saved from repeal or continued in force and effect fro any purpose.
Section 2: That all provisions of such Code shall be in full force and effect thirty days from the passage of this ordinance and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Jonesboro enacted on final passage prior to July 11, 1961, and not contained in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance except as hereinafter provided. No ordinance passed after July 10, 1961, is here repealed. No resolution of the City not specifically mentioned is hereby repealed.
Section 3: That, 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 contract or right established or accruing before July 11, 1961; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance of resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the City, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City 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 to any person, firm or corporation; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating or repairing any street or public way; nor shall such repeal affect the annual appropriation ordinance, nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance levying or imposing taxes; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance of the City relating to compensation of city officers and employees or rule or regulation relating to civil service; nor shall such repeal affect ordinances prescribing traffic regulations for specific locations, prescribing through streets, parking limitations, parking prohibitions, one-way traffic, limitations on load of vehicles, or loading zones, not inconsistent with such Code; 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 providing for local improvements and assessing taxes therefore; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the City; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance of the City relating to the inclusion or exclusion of lands within or from the city limits or affecting any lease, deed or other instrument relating to land; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance relating to improvement districts; 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.
Section 4: That any and all additions or amendments to such Code, when passed in such forms 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 of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.
Section 5: That three copies of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk, preserved in loose leaf form, or in such other form as the City Clerk may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the City 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. These copies of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same and shall be considered the official Code of Ordinances of the City of Jonesboro.
Section 6: That 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.
Section 7: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation 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 Jonesboro 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 Jonesboro.
Section 8: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 9: That, this ordinance shall become effective thirty days from its passage and publication in accordance with law.
PASSED and ADOPTED on this 19th day of March, 1962.