[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Lyme
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-10-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-4]
The compilation of the ordinances of the Town of Lyme, codified and consolidated into chapters and sections in the form attached hereto and made a part hereof, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 279, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Town of Lyme, Connecticut," hereinafter called the "Code." All provisions contained in the compilation provided for herein and known as the "Code of the Town of Lyme" shall be in force and effect on and after the effective date of this ordinance.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively
the same as those ordinances in force immediately prior to the enactment
of the Code by 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 Town.
A.Â
All ordinances
or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions contained
in the Code adopted by this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided,
however, that such repeal shall only be to the extent of such inconsistency,
and any valid legislation of the Town of Lyme which is not in conflict
with the provisions of the Code shall be deemed to remain in full
force and effect.
B.Â
The repeal
of an ordinance shall not revive any ordinances in force before or
at the time the ordinance repealed took effect. The repeal of an ordinance
shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal
took effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the
time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
C.Â
The following
are specifically repealed:
(1)Â
A resolution
effective May 10, 1958, authorizing the Lyme Garden Club to develop
certain lands in the rear of the Lyme Consolidated School for the
purpose of creating a wild plant life area.
(2)Â
An Ordinance
Providing for the Participation in the Connecticut River Estuary Planning
Region, effective June 6, 1967.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part
of this ordinance or of any ordinance appearing in the Code or included
in this Code through supplementation, or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances, shall be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder thereof or the application thereof to
other persons and circumstances but shall be confined in its operation
to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part thereof
and the persons and circumstances directly involved in the controversy
in which judgment shall have been rendered.
A copy of the Code has been filed in the office of the Town
Clerk of the Town of Lyme 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 Town Clerk of the Town of Lyme, and such certified copy shall
remain on file in the office of said Town Clerk 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 ordinance,
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.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements
to any of the ordinances in the Code of the Town of Lyme, or any new
ordinances, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the
intention that they 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 included
in the Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk or designee to keep up-to-date
the certified copy of the Code of the Town of Lyme required to be
filed in the office of the Town Clerk for use by the public. All changes
in said Code and all ordinances adopted by the Town subsequent to
the enactment of this ordinance in such form as to indicate the intention
that they be a part of said Code shall, when finally enacted or adopted,
be included therein by temporary attachment of copies of such changes
until such changes are included as supplements to said Code.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be
purchased from the Town Clerk of the Town of Lyme or an authorized
agent of the Town Clerk upon the payment of a fee to be set by the
Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk may also arrange for procedures
for the periodic supplementation thereof.
Any person who, without authorization from the Town Clerk, changes
or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code
of the Town of Lyme, or who alters or tampers with such Code in any
manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of the Town of
Lyme to be misrepresented thereby, or who violates any other provision
of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a
fine of not more than $250.
A.Â
In compiling and preparing the ordinances for publication as the Code of the Town of Lyme, no changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances have been made, except as provided in Subsection B of this section. Certain grammar and spelling corrections and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Town Meeting that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances had been previously formally amended to read as such.
B.Â
The amendments
as set forth in Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof
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 appear in the Code.)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedule A of Ord. No. 2019-4 is on file with
the Town Clerk.
Whenever any words in any section of this Code import the plural
number, the singular number shall be deemed to be included, and whenever
the singular number shall be used, it shall be deemed to include the
plural. Any word of masculine gender includes the feminine and the
neuter and may refer to a corporation or to a board or other body
or assemblage of persons, and when the sense so indicates, words of
the neuter gender may refer to any gender. Words used in the present
tense include the future.
This ordinance shall take effect upon passage and publication
as required by law.
