CITY CODE OF THE CITY OF RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA

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GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY

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Adopted, July 12, 1971
Effective, August 12, 1971

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Published by Order of the City Council, 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright 1971
Municipal Code Corporation
Tallahassee, Florida

OFFICIALS

of the

CITY OF RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA

AT THE TIME OF THIS CODIFICATION

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Mayor
John K. McNeill, Jr.

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Councilmen
J. D. McMillian
Franklin R. Teal
H. E. Garrison
C. L. Thomas, Jr.
Graham Clark

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City Manager
John D. Gaddy

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City Attorney
R. Palmer Willcox

CURRENT OFFICIALS
of the
CITY OF RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA

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John K. McNeill, III
Mayor

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Wayne Willis
John Jordan
Charles Allen
Mary Neil King
Robert Conoly
Councilmen

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Michael N. Wood
City Manager

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Betty Smith
Assistant City Manager/City Clerk

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Regina Sutherland
City Attorney

PREFACE

This Code is a revision and codification of all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Raeford.

As expressed in the Adopting Ordinance, the Code supersedes all ordinances not included herein or expressly saved from repeal by the Adopting Ordinance. Only ordinances of a general and permanent nature prescribed for and affecting the public as a whole are included. Special ordinances or ordinances dealing with only a portion of the inhabitants of the City, rather than all of them, or relating to special purposes, such as ordinances levying special assessments, providing for bond issues, paving, vacating, and opening specified streets, etc., are not included. For a more specific enumeration of the type of ordinances which is not included, see Section 3 of the Adopting Ordinance.

Arrangement of Code

The chapters of the Code have been conveniently arranged in alphabetical order and the various sections within each chapter have been appropriately catchlined to facilitate usage. The source of each section is included in the history note appearing at the end thereof in parentheses. The absence of such a note indicates that the section was adopted for the first time with the adoption of the Code. Footnotes which tie related sections of the Code together and the general state law are also included.

The numbering system used in this Code is the same system used in many state and municipal Codes. Each section number consists of two component parts separated by a dash, the figure before the dash referring to the chapter number and the figure after the dash referring to the position of the section within the chapter. Thus, the first section of Chapter 1 is numbered 1-1 and the fourteenth sections of Chapter 10 is 10-14. Under this system, each section is identified with its chapter and at the same time new sections can be inserted in their proper places, simply by using the decimal system for amendments. By way of illustration: If new material consisting of three sections that would logically come between sections 4-4 and 4-5 is desired to be added, such new sections would be numbered 4-4.1, 4-4.2 and 4-4.3, respectively. Sections have been reserved at the end of articles and divisions to provide for future expansion.

New chapters may be included by the addition of a fractional number after the chapter number, i.e., if the new material is to be included between Chapters 12 and 13 it will be designated as Chapter 12½. Care should be taken that the alphabetical arrangement of chapters is maintained when including new chapters. New articles and new divisions may be included in the same way or in the case of articles, may be placed at the end of the chapter embracing the subject, and in the case of divisions, may be placed at the end of the article embracing the subject, the next successive number being assigned to the article or division.

Looseleaf Service

A special feature of this Code to which the attention of the user is especially directed is the looseleaf system of binding and supplemental servicing for the Code. With this system, the Code will be kept up-to-date periodically. Upon the final passage of amendatory ordinances, they will be properly edited and the appropriate page or pages affected will be reprinted. These new pages will be distributed to the holders of the Codes with instructions for the manner of inserting the new pages and deleting the obsolete pages. Each such subsequent amendment when incorporated into this Code, may be cited as a part hereof as provided in Section 5 of the Adopting Ordinance.

The successful maintenance of this Code up-to-date at all times will depend largely upon the holder of the volumes. As revised sheets are received, it will then become the responsibility of the holder to have the amendments inserted according to the attached instructions. It is strongly recommended by the publisher that all such amendments be inserted immediately upon receipt to avoid misplacing them, and in addition that all deleted pages be saved and filed for historical reference purpose.

Index

The index of the Code has been prepared with the greatest of care. Each particular item has been placed under several headings, some of the headings being couched in lay phraseology, others in legal terminology, and still others in language generally used by municipal officials and employees. There are numerous cross references within the index itself which stand as guideposts to direct the user to the particular item in which he is interested.

Acknowledgements

The publishers are most grateful to Mr. R. Palmer Willcox, City Attorney, and the officials of the City of Raeford for their supervision, cooperation and interest during the progress of the work on this Code.

The publication of the Code was under direct supervision of George R. Langford, President and Charles H. Brown, Editor of the Municipal Code Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida. Credit is gratefully given to the other members of the publisher's staff for their sincere interest and able assistance throughout the project.

This Code is presented for the use and benefit of the citizens of the City of Raeford.

MUNICIPAL CODE CORPORATION
Tallahassee, Florida

July, 1971

ADOPTING ORDINANCE

An Ordinance Adopting and Enacting a New City Code of Ordinances for the City of Raeford, North Carolina; Establishing the Same; Providing for the Repeal of Certain Ordinances Not Included Therein Except as Herein Expressly Provided; Providing for the Effective Date of Such Code and a Penalty for the Violation Thereof; Providing for the Manner of Amending Such Code; and Providing When This Ordinance Shall Become Effective.

Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Raeford, North Carolina:

Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, consisting of Chapters 1 to 20, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "City Code of the City of Raeford, North Carolina" and shall be treated and considered as the new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall supersede all other general and permanent ordinances passed by the City Council on or before October 12, 1970, to the extent provided in Section 2 hereof.

Section 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in full force and effect from and after the 12th day of August, 1971, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Raeford enacted on final passage on or before October 12, 1970, and not included in such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the 12th day of August, 1971, except as hereinafter provided. No resolution of the City not specifically mentioned, is hereby repealed.

Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not affect any of the following:

(a)

Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the effective date of such Code;

(b)

Any ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the City or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City or any evidence of the City's indebtedness.

(c)

Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;

(d)

Any ordinance fixing the salary of any City officers or employees;

(e)

Any right or franchise granted by the City;

(f)

Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, widening, paving, etc., any street or public way in the City;

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Any appropriation ordinance;

(h)

Any ordinance which, by its own terms, is effective for a stated or limited term;

(i)

Any ordinance providing for local improvements and assessing taxes therefor;

(j)

Any zoning ordinance;

(k)

Any subdivision ordinance or ordinance dedicating or accepting any subdivision plat;

(l)

Any ordinance describing or extending the boundaries of the City;

(m)

Any ordinance designating one-way streets, stop intersections, intersections at which traffic-control signals are to be installed, areas or spaces in which the parking of vehicles is prohibited or limited, intersections at which the turning of vehicles is prohibited, restricted or regulated, or any other ordinance regulating traffic on specific streets or portions thereof or in specific areas of the City;

(n)

Any ordinance fixing the amount of the annual license tax to be paid to the City;

(o)

Any ordinance prescribing the charge to be paid for water and sewer taps and connections or the rates to be paid to utility, water or sewer service rendered by the City, and the amount of the deposit required to insure the payment thereof;

(p)

Any ordinance enacted after October 12, 1970.

Section 4. That whenever in such Code an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of such Code shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment for not exceeding thirty (30) days, as provided in Section 1-8 of such Code.

Section 5. That any and all additions and amendments to such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part thereof shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the City Code of Ordinances, Raeford, North Carolina, shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.

Section 6. In case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance and Section 1-8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.

Section 7. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the City Manager, preserved in looseleaf form, or in such other form as the City Manager may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the City Manager, or someone authorized by him, to insert in their designated places all amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the City Manager to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which may be from time to time repealed by the City Council. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.

Section 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to change or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of such Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City of Raeford to be misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this section shall be punished as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance.

Section 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.

Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective on the 12th day August, 1971.

PASSED AND APPROVED this 12th day of July, 1971.

(SEAL)

ATTEST:

 

	/s/ John K. McNeill, Jr.       Mayor

 

/s/ John Gaddy       City Manager