ORDINANCE NO. 1980-22

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

WHEREAS, the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing of the present general ordinances of the City of Greenfield is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the City; and

WHEREAS, the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana empower and authorize the common council of every 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 Common Council of the City of Greenfield 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 Common Council of the City of Greenfield, Indiana, that:

Section l. The general ordinances of the City of Greenfield, Indiana, as herein revised, amended, restated, codified and compiled in book form, published and printed by American Legal Publishing Company, are adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the City of Greenfield, Indiana."

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

Title I General Provisions

Title III Administration

Title V Public Works

Title VII Traffic Code

Title IX General Regulations

Title XI Business Regulations

Title XIII General Offenses

Title XV Land Use

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 All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not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 disannexing 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, plats 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 Mayor, and the Clerk of the City of Greenfield is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the Clerk.

Section 5. Said Code shall be in full force and effect two 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 Common Council of the City of Greenfield, Indiana, this 9th day of October, 1980.

/s/ Robert Strickland /s/ Keith J. McClarnon

Presiding Officer

/s/ Norman Binford ATTEST:

/s/ Beverly Gard/s/ Patricia Elmore

Clerk-Treasurer

/s/ Clayton Myers/s/ Don Jenkins

/s/ William Spacey/s/ Harry Pope

Presented by me to the Mayor this 10th day of October, 1980.

/s/ Patricia Elmore

Clerk-Treasurer

Approved by me this 10th day of October, 1980.

/s/ Keith J. McClarnon

Mayor
City of Greenfield, Indiana