HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-111 - Adoption of New Code of OrdinancesBILL NO.97- I!/
ORDINANCE NO. ~~~
An ordinance adopting and enacting a new code of ordinances of the City of Riverside; 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; providing penalty for the
violation thereof; and providing when this ordinance shall become effective.
Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Riverside as follows:
Section 1. That the code of ordinances, consisting of Titles I through VII, each inclusive, is hereby
adopted and enacted as the "Code of Ordinances of the City of Riverside"; which shall supersede
all other general and permanent ordinances of the City passed on or before February 4, 1997, to the
extent provided in Section 3 hereof.
Section 2. That all provisions of such code shall be in full force and effect from and after the
effective date of this ordinance as set forth herein.
Section 3. That all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City adopted on final
passage on or before February 4, 1997, and not included 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in force by reference therein, are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance,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 those which may be specifically excepted by separate ordinance, and except the following
which are hereby continued in full force and effect, unless specifically repealed by separate
ordinance:
a. Ordinances promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the City, or authorizing the
issuance of any bonds or notes of the City or any other evidence of the City's indebtedness, or
authorizing any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
b. Ordinances levying taxes or making special assessments;
c. Ordinances appropriating funds or establishing salaries and compensation, and providing for
expenses;
d. Ordinances granting franchises or rights to any person, firm or corporation;
e. Ordinances relating to the dedication, opening, closing, naming, establishment of grades,
improvement, altering, paving, widening or vacating of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public
places;
f. Ordinances authorizing or relating to particular public improvements;
g. Ordinances respecting the conveyances or acceptance of real property or easements in real
property;
h. Ordinances dedicating, accepting, or vacating any plat or subdivision in the City or any part
thereof, or providing regulations for the same;
i. Ordinances annexing property to the City;
Zoning ordinances not previously repealed and not contained in this code;
k. Ordinances establishing TIF districts or redevelopment districts;
1. All personnel ordinances, specifically ordinance no. 97-18 and any amendments thereto
That the repeal provided for in this Section shall not be construed to revive any ordinance or part
thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by this ordinance.
That the repeal provided for in this Section shall not affect any offense or act committed or done or
any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contractor right established or accruing before the effective
date of this ordinance, nor shall it affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any
judgement rendered prior to such date.
Section 4. That any and all additions and amendments to such Code when passed in such form as
to indicate the intention of the Board of Aldermen 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
Riverside", shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.
Section 5.
a. Whenever in this Code or any other ordinance of the City, or in any rule, regulation, notice or
order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority duly vested in him or
it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or misdemeanor or the doing
of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or
a misdemeanor, and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, upon conviction
of a violation of any such provision of this Code or of any such ordinance, rule, regulation,
notice or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City or County jail not exceeding ninety (90) days or by
both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense
is fixed by a Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such
offense, except that imprisonments may be in the City prison or workhouse instead of the
County jail.
b. Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or any such rule, regulation, notice
or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
c. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or
regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing,
securing, aiding, or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited
by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.
Section 6. That in case of the amendment by the Board of Aldermen of any Section of such Code
for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 5 of this ordinance
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 a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk, preserved
in looseleaf form or in such other form as the City Clerk may consider most expedient. It shall be
the express duty of the City Clerk, or someone authorized by said officer, to insert in their
designated places all amendments and all ordinances or resolutions which indicate the intention of
the Board of Aldermen to make the same part of such Code when the same have been printed or
reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which from time to time may
be repealed by the Board of Aldermen. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons
desiring to examine the same.
Section 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to change or alter 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 Riverside to be
misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this Section shall be punished as provided in Section
5 of this ordinance.
Section 9. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Aldermen that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance and the Code hereby adopted are
severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance or the Code
hereby adopted shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any
of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance or the Code
hereby adopted.
Section 10. This ordinance and the Code adopted hereby, shall become effective ~~,'/~/~-,~1~997.
PASSED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Riverside, this ~~~ day of IS~L''l~-ue.~J ,
1997.
APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Riverside this ~,G~l~ day of L~>1997:~
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