6. Ordinance 1295 - Adoption of Revised Kalispell City Codes - 1st ReadingORDINANCE NO. 1295
ADOPTION OF CODE
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA, ADOPTING A REVISION
AND CODIFICATION OF THE ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL
ENTITLED "THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA," PROVIDING
FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN, WITH
CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES HEREINAFTER SET OUT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL,
MONTANA:
Section 1. There is hereby adopted by the City Council that
certain Code entitled "The Code of the City of Kalispell, Montana,"
containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature as
compiled, consolidated, codified and indexed in Chapters 1 to 27,
both inclusive, of which Code not less than three copies have been
and are now filed in the office of the Clerk of Council.
Section 2. The provisions of such Code shall be in force and
effect on and after December 7, 1998, and all ordinances of a
general and permanent nature adopted on or before October 19, 1998,
and not contained in such Code are hereby repealed from and after
December 7, 1998, except as hereinafter provided.
Section 3. The repeal provided for in the preceding section
of this ordinance 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 December 7, 1998; nor shall it
affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any judgment
rendered prior to December 7, 1998; nor shall such repeal affect
any ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money for the City or authorizing the issue 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 it affect the annual tax
levy; nor shall it affect any right or franchise conferred by
ordinance or resolution of the City on any person or corporation;
nor shall it affect any ordinance adopted for purposes which have
been consummated; not shall it affect any ordinance which is
temporary, although general in effect, or special, although
permanent in effect; nor shall it affect any ordinance relating to
the salaries of the City officers or employees; nor shall it affect
any ordinance annexing territory to the City; nor shall it affect
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any ordinance naming, renaming, opening, accepting or vacating
streets or alleys in the City; nor shall it affect any ordinance
adopted on final reading and passage after October 19, 1998.
Section 4. Whenever in the Code adopted by this ordinance or
in any other ordinance of the City or in any rule, regulation or
order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under
authority duly vested in him or if any act is prohibited or is made
or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a 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, where no
specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such
provision of such Code or any other ordinance of the City or such
rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
three hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding
ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Except where otherwise provided, every day any violation of
such Code or any other ordinance of the City or such rule,
regulation or order shall constitute a separate offense.
Section 5. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the
City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and
phrases of this ordinance and the Code hereby adopted are
severable, and 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 unconstitution-
ality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases,
clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance or
the Code hereby adopted.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL
AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR THIS DAY OF , 1998.
Wm. E. Boharski, Mayor
P-AN0934irk
Theresa White
Clerk of Council
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