Chapter 1.15
EFFECT OF ORDINANCES
Sections:
1.15.010 Time ordinances become law and effective.
1.15.030 Amending or repealing ordinances.
1.15.040 Effect of amendments or repeals.
1.15.010 Time ordinances become law and effective.
(a) All ordinances passed by the city council become law upon the mayor’s signature or upon the mayor’s veto being overridden or on the day after expiration of the period allowed for mayoral action.
(b) All ordinances become effective at 12:01 a.m., Alaska Standard Time, on the day after the ordinance becomes law, unless the city council provides for another effective date or time. (Ord. O-93-6-6 § 1 (part), 1994)
1.15.020 Computation of time.
The time in which an act provided by law is required to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded. (Ord. O-93-6-6 § 1 (part), 1994)
1.15.030 Amending or repealing ordinances.
(a) Amendments to any of the provisions of this code shall be made by specific reference to the section number of this code in the following language:
“That NCO __________ of the Code of Ordinances of Nome, Alaska, is hereby amended to read as follows:_______________”
(b) All chapters, sections or provisions desired to be repealed must be specifically repealed by section, article or chapter number, as the case may be. (Ord. O-93-6-6 § 1 (part), 1994)
1.15.040 Effect of amendments or repeals.
(a) The repeal or amendment of an ordinance, or the expiration of a temporary ordinance, does not release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture or liability incurred or right accruing or accrued under that ordinance, unless the repealing or amending ordinance, or the temporary ordinance, so provides expressly. The ordinance shall be treated as remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of the right, penalty, forfeiture or liability.
(b) When an ordinance repealing a former ordinance, section or provision is itself repealed, that repeal does not revive the former ordinance, section or provision, unless it is expressly so provided. (Ord. O-93-6-6 § 1 (part), 1994)