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 White Oak
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

  § 1-13. Miscellaneous actions and ordinances not affected by Code.

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  • Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect any of the following:

    (1)

    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 this Code;

    (2)

    Any ordinance 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;

    (3)

    Any contract or obligation of the city;

    (4)

    Any right or franchise granted by the city;

    (5)

    Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way;

    (6)

    Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades or specifications for streets or other public ways;

    (7)

    Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing for the levy of taxes or for an annual budget;

    (8)

    Any ordinance relating to local improvements and assessments thereof;

    (9)

    Any ordinance annexing territory to the city or disannexing territory from the city;

    (10)

    Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision;

    (11)

    Any ordinance regulating public utility rates;

    (12)

    Any zoning ordinance;

    (13)

    Any ordinance prescribing subdivision regulations, not in conflict with this Code;

    (14)

    Any ordinance prescribing personnel policies and procedures;

    (15)

    Any ordinance enacted after the adoption of this Code by the city council;

    (16)

    Any ordinance pertaining to an economic development corporation;

    (17)

    Any ordinance pertaining to the use of paper ballots in elections;

    (18)

    Any ordinance pertaining to accumulations of filth, garbage, stagnant water, weeds, etc., on premises;

    (19)

    Any ordinance pertaining to:

    a.

    The exemption of residential gas and electricity from sales and use taxation; or

    b.

    Taxation of property described in article VIII, section 1-j of the state constitution;

    (20)

    Any ordinances pertaining to reinvestment zones;

    and all such actions and ordinances are hereby recognized as continuing in full force and effect to the same extent as if set out at length in this Code.

(Ord. of 6-30-81, § 3)