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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 12:52:33+00:00

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§ 1-2 Effective date; repealer.
§ 1-3 Legislation saved from repeal.
§ 1-5 Copies of file.
§ 1-6 Changes in previously adopted legislation.
§ 1-7 Definitions and word usage.
There is hereby adopted by the Board of Supervisors that certain Code entitled the "Code of Buchanan County, Virginia," containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature as revised, compiled, consolidated and codified in Chapters 1 to 90, both inclusive.
The provisions of such Code shall be in force on and after the effective date of this ordinance, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or prior to the effective date of this ordinance and not contained in such Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
Any ordinance levying or imposing taxes.
Any ordinance providing for any public improvement.
Any ordinance making any assessment.
Any ordinance opening, relocating, closing, altering or naming any streets or alleys.
Any ordinance relative to salaries, wages or compensation or bonds of county officers and employees or to members or employees of county boards or commissions.
Any ordinance relative to annexation of territory to the county or relative to the change, expansion or contraction of the corporate boundaries of the county.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to January 1, 1997.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Supervisors that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance and of the Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance or such Code shall be declared unconstitutional or 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 of such Code.
Three copies of the Code shall be filed in the office of the County Administrator and be made available on premises to persons desiring to examine the same.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for publication as the Code of Buchanan County, no changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances have been made, except as provided in Subsection B hereof. In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of Buchanan County that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinance had been previously formally amended to read as such.
In addition, the certain amendments and/or additions are made herewith and are hereby adopted by reference, to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. The chapters, articles, sections or subsections which have been amended or added have been noted using an Editor's Note stating "Amended (Added) at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I."
Gender. See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.7.
Computation of time. See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.3.
Number. See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.15.
"Or" and "and." The word "or" may be read "and" and the word "and" may be read "or" if the sense requires it.
"Preceding" and "following." See Code of Virginia, §§ 1-13.6 and 1-13.23.
"State" and "commonwealth." The words "state" and "commonwealth" shall be construed as if the words "of Virginia" followed.
Other words. The rules of construction given in §§ 1-13.1 to 1-15.1 of the Code of Virginia shall govern, so far as applicable, the construction of all other words not defined in this section.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Buchanan, Virginia.
The County of Buchanan in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.13.
See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.16.
When applied to a building or land, includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such building or land.
See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.19.
Includes a mark when a person cannot write.
Includes public streets, avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts, bridges and the approaches thereto and all other public thoroughfares in the county and shall mean the entire width thereof between abutting property lines. It shall be construed to include a sidewalk or footpath, unless the contrary is expressed or unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Supervisors.
See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.28.
See Code of Virginia, § 1-13.33.

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