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CHAPTER 2 (Revision: December 7, 2023) Page 3
CHAPTER 2 Saving Clause
SECTION:
1-2-1: Repeal of General Ordinances
1-2-2: Public Utility Ordinances
1-2-3: Saving Clause
1-2-1: REPEAL OF GENERAL ORDINANCES. All general ordinances of the City
are hereby repealed, except as herein specifically preserved or are by implication reserved from
repeal, subject to the saving clauses herein contained, excluding without limitation all special
ordinances relating to the following subjects: Tax levies, appropriation of public monies,
boundaries and annexations, franchises, ordinances granting special rights to persons or
correspondence, contracts, issuance of warrants, public salaries, ordinances establishing name or
vacating streets, alleys or other public places, improvement districts, bonds, local elections, the
sale or exchange of real estate, sign ordinances, economic development, urban renewal, public
utilities, zoning and all special ordinances of any kind, except for those provisions in such special
ordinances which this Code expressly amends.
1-2-2: PUBLIC UTILITY ORDINANCES. No ordinance or section thereof relating to
railroad or railroad crossings of streets and other public ways, or relating to the conduct, duties,
service or rates of public utilities shall be repealed by the adoption of this Code or by the preceding
section, except as this Code specifically provides for such repeal.
1-2-3: SAVING CLAUSE. Any ordinance amending or repealing any section of this
Code shall not be deemed or construed to abate any pending action based upon such amended or
repealed section, nor shall the passage of such ordinance prevent the arrest, prosecution and
punishment of any violation of such section committed prior to the effective date of such
ordinance.