VILLAGE OF STEVENSVILLE – ORDINANCE ADOPTION

VILLAGE OF STEVENSVILLE
BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN

NOTICE OF ORDINANCE ADOPTION AND SYNOPSIS OF ORDINANCE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS GIVEN that at a regular meeting of the Village Council for the Village of Stevensville held at the Stevensville Village Hall on April 4, 2024, and beginning at 6:00 p.m., the Village Council Adopted Ordinance No. 040424.

THE EFFECT OF ORDINANCE NO. 040424 (the “Ordinance”) IS SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Provides that the Ordinance shall be known as the “Code of Ordinances Adopting Ordinance” and may be so cited.
Section 2. Provides that the code entitled “Code of Ordinances, Village of Stevensville, Michigan” consisting of Chapters 1 – 35, inclusive is adopted. A complete copy of the Code of Ordinances is available for review at the Village of Stevensville Village Hall as more specifically described below.
Section 3. Provides that except when otherwise provided in the Code of Ordinances or the Ordinance, all ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before April 4, 2024, not included in this Code of Ordinances or recognized and continued in force by reference therein, are hereby repealed. Any Zoning Ordinance/zoning regulations for the Village of Stevensville, including the official Zoning Map for the Village of Stevensville, are not repealed by the Ordinance and remain in full force and effect.
Section 4. Provides that the repeal provided for in Section 3 of the Ordinance shall not be construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance that is repealed by the Ordinance.
Section 5. Provides penalty provisions for violations of the Code of Ordinances of the Village of Stevensville. Specifically, whenever in the Code of Ordinances or any other ordinance of the Village an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be a misdemeanor or a municipal civil infraction, or whenever in the Code of Ordinances or any Village ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be a misdemeanor or municipal civil infraction, the violation of any such provision by any person shall, upon conviction of a misdemeanor, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 93 days, or both, except whenever a specific penalty is other provided.  Whenever any such violation shall constitute a municipal civil infraction, a finding of responsibility shall be punished by a civil fine not exceeding $500.00 (plus court costs, attorney’s fees, reimbursement of expenses, and equitable relief where applicable), except when a specific penalty is otherwise provided.
Section 6. Provides that additions or amendments to the Code of Ordinances when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the Village Council to make the same a part of the Code of Ordinances shall be deemed to be incorporated in the Code of Ordinances, so that the reference to the Code of Ordinances includes the additions and amendments.
Section 7. Provides that ordinances adopted after April 4, 2024 that amend or refer to ordinances that have been codified in the Code of Ordinance shall be construed as if they amend or refer to like provisions of the Code of Ordinance.
Section 8. Provides that a prosecution pending on the effective date of the Ordinance which arose from a violation of an ordinance repealed by the Ordinance, or a prosecution which is started within a one-year period after the effective date of the Ordinance arising from a violation of an ordinance repealed by the Ordinance and which was committed prior to the effective date of the Ordinance shall be tried and determined exactly as if the ordinance had not been repealed.
Section 9. Provides that this Ordinance shall take effect on the twenty-first day after its passage or the date of the publication of this Ordinance or a synopsis of this Ordinance, whichever occurs first.
THE ORDINANCE WILL BE EFFECTIVE THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE OF STEVENSVILLE.
A TRUE AND COMPLETE COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE AND THE CODE OF ORDINANCES CODIFIED BY THE ORDINANCE MAY BE OBTAINED, INSPECTED, COPIED, PURCHASED, OR REVIEWED AT THE VILLAGE CLERK’S OFFICE AS FOLLOWS:
Location: Stevensville Village Hall, 5768 St. Joseph Avenue, Stevensville, MI 49127
Hours of operation: Monday – Friday 9am – 4pm
Phone: 269-429-1802
Email: clerk@villageofstevensville.us

Date: 04/04/2024

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Kelly Vaughn, Village Clerk