[Adopted 9-15-2011 by L.L. No. 49-2011]
A. 
In accordance with Subdivision 3 of § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, the local laws and certain resolutions of Suffolk County, as codified by General Code, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 1200, is hereby adopted and shall be known collectively as the "Code of Suffolk County," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the local laws and resolutions contained in the Code of Suffolk County to any other local law or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number appearing in the Code as if such local law, ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
B. 
Copy of Code on file. A copy of the Code, in loose-leaf form, has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Legislature of Suffolk County 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 by the Clerk of the Legislature of Suffolk County by impressing thereon the Seal of the County, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of said Clerk of the Legislature to be made available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while said Code is in effect. The enactment and publication of this local law, coupled with the availability of a copy 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.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of the 1985 County Code and local laws and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law, are intended as a continuation of such local laws and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior local law or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the County Legislature of Suffolk County, and it is the intention of said Legislature that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former local laws as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below.
The chapters of the 1985 Code in force immediately prior to the enactment of the Code by this local law shall be removed, repealed or distributed in the Code as indicated and set forth in the Derivation Table which is attached hereto as Exhibit A and made a part of this local law.[1]
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Editor's Note: See the Derivation Table included at the end of Vol. II of this Code.
A. 
In compiling and preparing the local laws and resolutions for publication as the Code of Suffolk County, no changes in the meaning or intent of such local laws 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 or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of the County Legislature that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the local laws and resolutions had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B. 
In addition, the amendments and/or additions as set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this local law. (Chapter and section number references are to the local laws and resolutions as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.)[1]
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Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-4B, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted or deleted by this local law are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article I. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: "Amended (added, deleted) 9-15-2011 by L.L. No. 49-2011." Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the County offices.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the local laws and resolutions known collectively as the "Code of Suffolk County" or any new local laws and resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the County Legislature 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 published 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 or resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the County Legislature deems desirable.
It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Legislature to keep up-to-date the Code of Suffolk County required to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Legislature for use by the public. All changes in said Code and all local laws and resolutions adopted by the County Legislature subsequent to the enactment of this local law in such form as to indicate the intention of said County Legislature to be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted, be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes, local laws or resolutions until such changes, local laws or resolutions are published as supplements to said Code, at which time such supplements shall be inserted therein.