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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 14:42:02+00:00

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§ 1-2 Distribution of local laws, ordinances and resolutions.
§ 1-3 Repeal of enactments not included in Code.
§ 1-11 Changes in previously adopted legislation.
The local laws, ordinances and resolutions of the City of Watertown referred to in § 1-2 of this local law shall be known collectively as the "Code of the City of Watertown," hereafter termed the "Code," and the various parts and sections of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions shall be distributed and designated as provided and set forth in § 1-2 of this local law.
All local laws, ordinances and resolutions of a general and permanent nature of the City of Watertown in force on the date of the adoption of this local law and not contained in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this local law.
The repeal of local laws and ordinances provided for in § 1-3 of this local law shall not affect the following classes of local laws, ordinances, resolutions, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal.
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative provision of the City of Watertown prior to the effective date of this local law, or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
An offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this local law in violation of any legislative provision of the City of Watertown, or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending, or any judgment rendered prior to the effective date of this local law, brought pursuant to any legislative provision of the City of Watertown.
Any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by the City of Watertown.
Any local law, ordinance or resolution of the City of Watertown providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, park or other public place within the City of Watertown or any portion thereof.
Any local law, ordinance or resolution of the City of Watertown appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of the City of Watertown or other instruments or evidence of the city's indebtedness.
Local laws, ordinances or resolutions authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property, or any lawful contract or obligation.
Any local laws, ordinances or resolutions relating to salaries.
The Zoning Map and any and all Zoning Map amendments, and the Official Map and any and all amendments.
Any local laws, ordinances or resolutions relating to vehicles and traffic.
All legislation adopted subsequent to July 1, 1985.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, Article or part of this local law or of any local law, ordinance or resolution cited in the table in § 1-2 hereof, or any local law, ordinance or resolution included in this Code through supplementation, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, Article or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Watertown and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this local law; and, if this local law shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the City Clerk of the City of Watertown by impressing thereon the Seal of the City of Watertown, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said City Clerk to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while the said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the local laws, ordinances and resolutions known collectively as the "Code of the City of Watertown," or any new local laws, ordinances or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing contained in this local law shall affect the status of any local law, ordinance or resolution contained herein, and such local laws, ordinances or resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the City Council deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to keep up-to-date the certified copy of the book containing the Code of the City of Watertown required to be filed in the office of the City Clerk for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all local laws, ordinances and resolutions adopted by the City Council subsequent to the enactment of this local law in such form as to indicate the intention of said Council to be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes or local laws, ordinances or resolutions until such change or local law, ordinances or resolutions are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the Code may be purchased from the City Clerk of the City of Watertown upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the City Council, which may also arrange by resolution for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the City Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code of the City of Watertown, or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the City of Watertown to be misrepresented thereby, or who violates any other provision of this local law, shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment for a term of not more than fifteen (15) days, or both.
In compiling and preparing the local laws, ordinances and resolutions for publication as the Code of the City of Watertown, as distributed and designated in the table in § 1-2 hereof, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws, ordinances and resolutions have been made, except as provided for in Subsection B hereof. In addition, certain grammatical changes and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one (1) or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of the City Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the local laws, ordinances and resolutions had been previously formally amended to read as such.
Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 1-11B, the following Sections of the Code have been amended, added or revised: §§ 27-3, 42-3, 44-1, 44-12, 47-2C and D, 47-7, 47-10A and B, 47-12, 47-19, 47-20A and B, 50-1, 50-8, 50-16, 57-26, 61-1, 61-2, 61-7, 61-8A, 61-9, 61-10, 61-11, 61-13, 61-14, 63-4, 65-5, 65-8B(2), 65-13D, 65-27A(1) and (6), 65-28, 65-29, 65-30, 65-33, 65-37, 69-2, 72-1, 72-3, 72-4A, 72-5A, 72-7, 72-13, 84-1, 84-7, 93-6, 93-7, 101-295, 101-296, 110-4, 110-6, 110-12, 110-14E, 110-15, 113-5, 115-13, 119-1, 119-4B, 119-6B, 123-3B, 144-6, 152-7, 152-8, 155-1, 155-13, 163-1, 163-7, 163-11, 171-2, 177-1, 177-6, 181-2, 186-1, 186-12B, 190-1, 190-23, 198-17D, 203-1, 203-12, 203-13, 203-25, 209-55, 209-56A, 209-67, 209-73A(2) and C, 213-1, 213-8A, 213-15, 213-35, 213-36, 213-46, 213-53, 219-1, 219-13, 223-1, 223-7, 227-8, 237-1, 237-4, 237-6E, 237-20, 237-21, 241-9 and 245-65; Ch. 47, Art. II; and Ch. 198, Art. IV. In addition, the following sections have been deleted: former Secs. 5-1, 5-2, 41-6, 50-1 and 54-10(E). A complete description of these changes is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
The provisions of this local law are hereby made Article I of Chapter 1 of the Code of the City of Watertown, such local law to be entitled "General Provisions, Article I, Adoption of Code," and the sections of this local law shall be numbered §§ 1-1 to 1-13, inclusive.

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