 |
Lake Wales (Current through Ordinance 2023-17, Adopted 7-05-2023) |
 |
Charter |
|
|
Article IX. General Provisions |
| § 9.01. Separability. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
If any provision of this charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application of the charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the application of the charter and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. |
| § 9.02. Transition. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
All provisions of Articles I through XV of the charter of the City of Lake Wales, being Chapter 29224, Laws of Florida, Special Acts 1953, and Chapter 57-1488, Laws of Florida, Special Acts 1957, not embraced herein which are not inconsistent with this amended charter shall become ordinances for a period of one year unless sooner modified or repealed. |
| § 9.03. Charter superseded. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
Articles I through XV of the charter of the City of Lake Wales, being Chapter 29224, Laws of Florida, Special Acts 1953, and Chapter 57-1488, Laws of Florida, Special Acts 1957, as amended from time to time, are superseded by this revision. |
| § 9.04. Ordinances and resolutions preserved. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
All ordinances and resolutions in effect upon the adoption of this revision, to the extent not inconsistent with it, shall remain in force until they expire by their terms or are repealed. |
| § 9.05. Rights preserved. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
All actions, rights of action, claims, contracts and obligations of individuals, corporations, and public bodies or agencies existing on the date this revision becomes effective shall continue to be valid as if this revision had not been adopted. All taxes, penalties, fines and forfeitures owing to the City of Lake Wales, shall inure to the City of Lake Wales under this revision, and all sentences as punishment for crimes shall be executed according to their terms. |
| § 9.06. Deletion of obsolete sections. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
The commission shall have power, by resolution, to delete from this revision any section of this Article IX, including this section, when all events to which the section to be deleted is or could become applicable have occurred. |
| § 9.07. Clerical changes. |
|
Latest version.
|
|
The commission shall have power, by resolution, to make non-substantive clerical changes to the Charter in order to correct language that has become obsolete, inappropriate, or not conforming to commonly accepted usage. |
|
(Ord. No. 2011-01, § 1, 2-1-11) |