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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GAHANNA, OHIO TO PROVIDE AMENDMENTS TO THE GENERAL OFFENSES CODE, VARIOUS SECTIONS; TO PROVIDE FOR PENALTIES, CODIFICATION, SEVERABILITY; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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WHEREAS, the duly elected governing authority of the City of Gahanna, Ohio is authorized by ORC § 715.01 to adopt ordinances relating to its property, affairs and local government; and
WHEREAS, certain provisions within the Codified Ordinances of the City of Gahanna, should be amended to conform with current State law as required by the Ohio Constitution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GAHANNA, COUNTY OF FRANKLIN, STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That the Codified Ordinances of the City of Gahanna are hereby amended as reflected in EXHIBIT A and made a part herein, for the following code sections:
501.01, 501.025, 501.06, 501.99, 505.03, 505.06, 505.07, 505.071, 509.03, 509.07, 513.01, 513.02, 513.03, 513.04, 513.05, 513.06, 513.07, 513.08, 525.05, 525.12, 525.16, 533.03, 533.04, 533.07, 533.09, 533.091, 533.11, 533.14, 537.02, 537.021, 537.03, 537.051, 537.06, 537.07, 537.10, 537.15, 537.16, 537.17, 537.18, 541.01, 541.02, 541.04, 545.05, 545.08, 545.10, 545.12, 545.15, 549.01, 549.04, 549.11.
Section 2. The addition, amendment, or removal of sections of the Codified Ordinances when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the governing authority of the City of Gahanna, Ohio to make the same a part of the Codified Ordinances shall be deemed to be incorporated in the Codified Ordinances, so that reference to the Codified Ordinances includes the additions, amendments, and removals.
Section 3. The codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement to the Codified Ordinances of the City of Gahanna, Ohio is authorized to exclude and omit any provisions of this ordinance that are inapplicable to the Codified Ordinances.
Section 4. Supplementation of Code:
(A) In preparing a supplement to Codified Ordinances, all portions of this ordinance which have been repealed shall be excluded from the Codified Ordinances by the omission thereof from reprinted pages.
(B) When preparing a supplement to the Codified Ordinances, the codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement) may make formal, non-substantive changes in this ordinance and parts of this ordinance included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them into a unified code. For example, the codifier may:
(1) Organize the ordinance material into appropriate subdivisions;
(2) Provide appropriate catchlines, headings and titles for sections and other subdivisions of the Codified Ordinances printed in the supplement, and make changes in such catchlines, headings and titles;
(3) Assign appropriate numbers to sections and other subdivisions to be inserted in the Codified Ordinances and, where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or other subdivision numbers;
(4) Change the words "this ordinance" or words of the same meaning to "this chapter," "this article," "this division," etc., as the case may be, or to "sections 501.1 through 5.49.01", as set forth above; and
(5) Make other non-substantive changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance sections inserted into the Codified Ordinances; but in no case shall the codifier make any change in the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement or already embodies in the Codified Ordinances.
(C) In preparing a supplement to the Codified Ordinances, the pages of the published supplement shall be included so that they will fit properly into the Codified Ordinances and will, where necessary, replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete, and the new pages shall be prepared so that, when they have been included, the Codified Ordinances will be current through the date of the adoption of the latest ordinance included in the supplement.
Section 5. Provisions of EXHIBIT A that duplicate or track state statutes which do not become effective until after the effective date of this ordinance, shall not take effect until such statutes take effect.
Section 6. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage by this Council and 30 days after date of signature approval by the Mayor.