The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-09-21
ORDINANCE NO. 1874.

AN ORDINANCE ORDERING A RE-
VISION, COMPILATION, AND PUB
LEGATION OF THE GENERAL OR
DINANCES AND THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF ARDMORE.
Be it ordained by the Board Of Com
missioners of the City Of Ardmore, Ok
! lahoma:
Section /. revision of the gen
eral ordinances of said city is hereby
ordered, and Russell Brown is hereby
employed and authorized TO revise,
compile and codify all necessary gen.
eral ordinances of said city and to ar
range same in new chapters, articles,
and sections, with appropriate titles,
sub-titles and numbers necessary to
facilitate examination thereof, and the
ascertainment of sections referring
to the subject matter involved there
in; and to prepare and arrange an in
dex thereof and of the existing char
ter of said city and when so prepared,
TO superintend the printing of not less
than one hundred copies thereof in
book form.
Section g When the revised ordi-
nances of said city, and the charter
thereof, shall have been published in
book form, as above provided, they
shall become and be the Revised Gen
eral Ordinances of said city and shall
supersede and repeal all existing gen.
eral ordinances, and said book of Re
vised General Ordinances shall be
read and received in evidence in all
courts and places without further
proof.
Section 3. In the compilation of the
("Revsed General Ordinances" all IT,
ties, captions, and formal sections re-
ferring to the time of taking effect and
publication thereof, and the repeal of
previous ordinances shall be wholly
omitted, and only such sections includ-
ed as are important in ascertaining
the force and effect of said existing
ordinances; provided that such new
ordinances that shall not have been
previously passed and published as by
law provided and which are not in fact
a revision of a previous existing or
dinance shall be published in the RE
| nl
by the Board of Commissioners with
the addition of whatever additional sec
tion numbers may be necessary.
Section A. All general ordinances
and parts of general ordinances which
conflict with said Revised General
Ordinances" are hereby repealed; Pro
yided, no prosecution now pending and
no offense heretofore committed in
violation of any ordinance heretofore
enacted, shall be affected in any way
by the passage and taking effect of
this ordinance, or by the repeal here
in of any ordinances or parts of or
dinances heretofore existing, but all
such prosecution shall be conducted
! to final judgment, and all such of
fenses shall>be punished under former
ordinances in the same manner and
to the same extent and effect as if this
ordinance had not been enacted and
said former ordinances repealed.
-,
said book of Revised General Ordi.
nances" will be published certain re.
vised ordinances which have been
passed by this Board of Commission.
ers to take effect upon their publica-
tion in the book of revised ordinances
OF said city now, therefore,
The publication of said Revised
General Ordinances" shall constitute
! the publication of said revision ordi
nances above referred to, and previ
ously enacted, and upon the accept.
ance and publication of said book by
ordinance of this board. said ordi.
nances shall take effect and be in
force. pursuant to the charter Of said
city, and the statutes OF the State
of Oklahoma.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be
in full force and effect from and after
it's publication according to law.
Section Z. For the immediate pre-
seryation of the public peace, health
and safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist by reason of which
this ordinance is TO take effect i'm.
mediate upon its passage and approval.
Passed and approved this 3lst day OF
/ August. 1915.
]. VI. HOARD,
Attest: Acting Mayor
C. H. BRUCE.