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Borough of Lehighton, PA General Provisions
§ 1-6 Changes and revisions to previously adopted ordinances.
§ 1-7 Interpretation and construction of terms and provisions.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Lehighton: Art. I, 8-26-1991 by Ord. No. 413. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-26-1991 by Ord. No. 413]
Pursuant to Section 1008(b) of the Borough Code, 53 P.S. § 46008(b), the codification of a complete body of ordinances for the Borough of Lehighton, County of Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised, codified and consolidated into chapters, Articles and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of Chapters 1 through 218, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as a single ordinance of the Borough of Lehighton, which shall be known and is hereby designated as the "Code of the Borough of Lehighton," hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
The provisions of this Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment of this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Borough Council of the Borough of Lehighton, and it is the intention of said Borough Council that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reenacted and reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below, and only changed provisions, as described in § 1-6 below, shall be deemed to be enacted from the effective date of this Code, as provided in § 1-15 below.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Borough of Lehighton and in force on the date of the adoption of this Code and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date given in § 1-15 below, except as hereinafter provided.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to May 19, 1989.
Any ordinance establishing or amending zoning regulations in the borough or making changes and amendments to the Zoning Map.
Any ordinance pertaining to flood damage prevention.
Current ordinances regulating the use of sewers in the borough.
Any ordinance regarding capital reserve funds.
Any ordinance regarding the office of Borough Manager.
Any ordinance regarding a police pension fund.
Any ordinance regulating outdoor burning.
Any ordinance regarding electrical standards.
Any ordinance regulating street excavations and openings.
Substantive changes and revisions. In addition to the changes and revisions described above, the following changes and revisions of a substantive nature are hereby made to various ordinances included in the Code. These changes are made to bring provisions into conformity with the desired policies of the Borough Council, and it is the intent of the Borough 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. All such changes and revisions shall be deemed to be in effect as of the effective date of the Code specified in § 1-15.[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to § 1-6C, the following Code sections and chapters were amended or added: §§ 11-17, 31-1A, 49-4, 54-5, 54-12A and B, 58-1, 58-4, 61-1, 61-5B, 65-3, 75-11, 80-3, 80-4, 85-3, 85-9, 98-9, 118-2, 118-4, 118-16, 118-21A, 125-8, 138-18, 149-5A and C, 149-6, 152-8, 152-13, 156-7, 156-10, 159-2, 162-1A, 162-4A, 162-8, 165-1, 165-4B, 171-1, 171-4, 176-4, 192-2A, 192-18, 196-5, 196-14C, 133-16, 201-1, 201-14 and 205-4. In addition, the following original sections were deleted: Section 101-6 of Ord. No. 300 and Sections 130-2, 130-5, 130-8, 130-11, 130-15, 130-18 and 130-28 of Ch. 130 of the 1975 Code. A complete description of these changes is on file at the Borough Secretary's office.
New ordinances. Certain new ordinances were approved by the Borough Council during the process of codification to replace previously adopted ordinances deemed obsolete and/or inadequate or to provide regulation and control on new subject matters. These new ordinances are described in the notice published in conjunction with their adoption and in conjunction with the adoption of this Code. Such ordinances are cited within the historical statements for individual chapters or Articles by the phrase "adopted at time of adoption of Code" and are as follows:
Chapter 104, Firearms.
Chapter 109, Fire Prevention.
Chapter 143, Moving Permits.
[Amended 10-26-1998 by Ord. No. 482]
Whenever any words are used in this Code for the masculine gender, they shall be construed as though they were also used in the feminine gender.
The provisions of this ordinance and of the Code adopted hereby are severable, and if any clause, sentence, subsection, section, article or part thereof shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unconstitutional, such judgment or decision shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation and application to the clause, sentence, subsection, section, article or part thereof so rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Borough Council that this ordinance and the Code would have been adopted if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional clause, sentence, subsection, section, article or part thereof had not been included therein.
All provisions of this ordinance and of the Code shall be in force and effect on and after midnight August 26, 1991.