[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of Rappahannock County as indicted in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The provisions of such Code shall be in force
on and after 12:00 p.m. midnight on December 2, 1996, the effective
date and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted
prior to the effective date of this ordinance and not contained in
such Code are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of
this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
The repeal provided for in the preceding section
of this ordinance shall not affect any offense or act committed or
done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right
established or occurring before the effective date of this ordinance;
nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance or resolution promising
or guaranteeing the payment of money by or for the county or authorizing
the issue of any bonds of the county or any evidence of indebtedness
or any contract or obligation assumed by the county; nor shall it
affect any right or franchise conferred by ordinance or resolution
of the county on any person or corporation; nor shall it affect any
ordinance adopted for purposes which have been consummated; nor shall
it affect any of the following or any amendment thereto:
A.
Any appropriation ordinance.
B.
Any ordinance levying or imposing taxes, appropriating
money, setting the tax rate or adopting the county budget.
C.
Any ordinance providing for any public improvement.
D.
Any ordinance making any assessment.
E.
Any ordinance opening, relocating, closing, altering,
abandoning, terminating state maintenance of or naming any road, street
or alley.
F.
Any ordinance relative to salaries, wages or compensation
or bonds of county officers and employees or of members or employees
of county boards or commissions.
G.
Any ordinance relative to annexation of territory
to the county or relative to the change, expansion or contraction
of the boundaries of the county.
H.
Any ordinance establishing an Agricultural and Forestal
District.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of
the Board of Supervisors that the sections, paragraphs, sentences,
clauses and phrases of this ordinance and of the Code are severable,
and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this
ordinance or such Code shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid
by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of
this ordinance or of such Code.
Three copies of the Code shall be filed in the
office of the County Administrator and be made available to persons
desiring to examine the same.
A.
Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance or resolution
of the county or any rule or regulation or order promulgated by any
officer or agency of the county under authority duly vested in him
or it any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense
or misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required or the failure
to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, the
violation of any such provision of this Code or of any such ordinance,
resolution, rule, regulation or order shall be punished as a Class
1 misdemeanor.
B.
Each day any violation of this Code or any such ordinance,
resolution, rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute,
except where otherwise provided, a separate offense.
With respect to the provisions of Chapter 170 of this Code, the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County specifically finds that the provisions of that chapter, including all amendments to the Rappahannock County Zoning Ordinance of 1987, and all resolutions and motions heretofore adopted proposing such amendments, are, and were at the time of their enactment, for the public necessity, convenience, general welfare or good zoning practice.
This Article I, Adoption of Code, was adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County, Virginia on December 2, 1996 at its regular monthly meeting after a public hearing advertised in accordance with §§ 15.1-431 and 15.1-504 of the Code of Virginia, and after a complete copy of this Code was on file for public inspection in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court for Rappahannock County, Virginia, and the office of the County Administrator for at least two weeks prior to said public meeting.
[Added 3-1-2021]
Whenever this Code makes reference to any provision of state
law or to a section or part of the State Code, such reference shall
be deemed to include all amendments and successor sections and parts
of the State Code so referenced, unless a contrary intention is clear.
Whenever a State Code section or part referenced in this Code is amended
or reenacted, and such section or part is given a new number or name
by the state, the reference in this Code shall be deemed to be to
the new state number or name, unless a contrary intent is clear.
