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Town of Rock Hall, MD Adoption of Code
§ 1-15 Deposit of copies with state agencies.
[Adopted 8-10-1979 by Ord. No. 79-6]
Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Rock Hall, Maryland, as follows:
The Charter, the ordinances and certain resolutions of the Town of Rock Hall, of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Rock Hall, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of the Charter and Chapters 1 through 118, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Rock Hall," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code."
All provisions of this ordinance of the Code shall be in full force and effect on and after August 31, 1979.
A copy of the Code in loose-leaf form has been filed in the office of the Town Clerk and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and, if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Clerk of the Town of Rock Hall by impressing thereon the seal of the town, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Clerk of the town to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intent of the governing body to make them a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the "Code of the Town of Rock Hall" shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments. Whenever such additions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the loose-leaf book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Clerk of the Town of Rock Hall, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published in the manner required a copy of this adopting ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation in the town. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Clerk for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours. The enactment and publication of this adopting ordinance, coupled with availability of copies of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Copies of the Code book containing the Code may be purchased from the Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the Mayor and Council, who may also arrange, by resolution, for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Town of Rock Hall to be misrepresented thereby. Any violation of this section shall be punishable as a misdemeanor, the penalty for which shall be a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to December 1977.
Any legislation of the Town of Rock Hall relating to soil or sediment control.
Any legislation of the Town of Rock Hall pertaining to zoning or subdivision of land.
Any ordinance or legislation of the Town of Rock Hall dealing with or pertaining to any sewer or water regulations or codification, adopted before or after December 1977.
[Added 9-12-1980 by Ord. No. 1-13-N]
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Mayor and Council that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such.
In addition, the following changes, amendments or revisions are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. (Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances as they have been renumbered and appeared in the 1978 Code.)[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 1-14B, the following sections were added or amended: §§ 10-1, 10-2, 10-7, 10-11, 14-2A, B, C and F, 16-1, 34-1, 34-3A, 34-5, 34-6, 42-4A, B, E, F and G, 42-6C and D, 42-14, 53-1, 53-7, 65-7, 71-2, 77-4, 84-12, 90-6A(1), 90-13B, 90-15, 92-3, 100-2, 100-7C, 100-10B, 100-15, 100-17, 110-1B, 110-1C, 110-2, 110-3, 112-3A(12), C, D, E and F, 112-4A, 112-7C, D, E and F(3), 112-9, 115-3C, 115-4A, 115-6A, 115-8B(1), 115-11C and D, 115-12A and 115-17A, F, H, I, J and L. In addition, the following sections were deleted: original Sections 912e and 918, Subsection O, of Chapter 9 of the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Rock Hall, adopted 10-6-1977 by Ord. No. 26. A complete description of these changes is on file in the office of the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
Pursuant to § 8B of Art. 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland,[1] a copy of the Code of the Town of Rock Hall containing the Charter shall be deposited with the required state agencies.
Editor's Note: Article 23A, § 8B, was repealed by the Acts of 1976, ch. 628, § 1, effective July 1, 1976.