Ordinance No. 1220 (Word Version)

ORDINANCE NO. 1220

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, COMPILING AND REVISING THE ORDINANCES OF A GENERAL AND PERMANENT NATURE OF SAID CITY; REPEALING CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT CONTAINED THEREIN; PROVIDING PENALTIES; ADOPTING SECONDARY CODES; AND PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF SAID CODE.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

Section 1. Pursuant to authority conferred by Colorado Revised Statutes, Chapter 139, Article 34, there is hereby adopted that certain Code, entitled the "Code of Ordinances, City of Grand Junction, Colorado," together with all secondary codes duly described in said Code of Ordinances and incorporated therein by reference.

Section 2. The following secondary codes are incorporated in the Code of Ordinances, City of Grand Junction, Colorado:

(a) Uniform Building Code, 1964 Edition, promulgated by the International, Conference of Building Officials, Pasadena, California;

(b) National Electrical Code, 1962 Edition, Promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association, 465 California Street, San Francisco, California;

(c) The Gas Installation Rules and Regulations, heretofore adopted by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, as they existed and were effective on June 2, 1965;

(d) Model Traffic Code for Colorado Municipalities, 1962, promulgated by the Colorado Highway Safety Council, Denver, Colorado, as amended by ordinance.

Section 3. All provisions of said,Code of Ordinances shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from the passage of this Ordinance, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Grand Junction, enacted on final passage on or before June 2,1965 and not in said Code of Ordinances or recognized or continued in force by reference therein are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.

Section 4. The repeal provided for in Section 3 of this ordinance shall not affect any offense-or act committed or done or any contract or right established or accruing before the effective date of this ordinance; nor shall such repeal affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any judgment or decree rendered prior to said effective date; nor shall such repeal affect any ordinance:

(a) Promising, guaranteeing or authorizing the payment of money by or for the city.

(b) Authorizing the issuance of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.

(d) Establishing or relating to the compensation of city officers or employees.

(e) Levying taxes, making appropriations or adopting a budget.

(f) Relating to any specific local improvement.

(g) Relating to any special assessment.

(h) Vacating, accepting,, naming, establishing, locating, relocating or opening any street or public way.

(i) Affecting the corporate limits of the City.

(j) Regulating traffic or parking at specific locations, not inconsistent herewith

(k) Relating to zoning.

Section 5. Said Code of Ordinances contains the following penalties:

Section 1-8. General penalty; continuing violations.

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate, disobey, omit, neglect, or refuse or fail to comply with or resist the enforcement of any provision of this Code, or commit any act or omission declared to be a misdemeanor, and where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any provision of this Code shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00), or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Unless otherwise indicated, each day or portion thereof any violation of this Code shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

Section 7-2. Amendments to Code.

The building code adopted by Section 7-1 is hereby amended in the following respects:

Section 205 of said Code, establishing violations and providing penalties therefor, is hereby specifically adopted, said section reading as follows:

"Section 205. It shall be unlawful for any person firm or corporation to erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, improve, remove, convert or demolish, equip, use, occupy, or maintain any building or structure in the City, or cause the same to be done, contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this Code.

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this Code is committed, continued or permitted, and upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment."

Section 7-48. Violations, penalties.

In addition to suspension or revocation of licenses, by the board as provided by this article, any person violating any of the provisions of this article or any lawful rule or regulation of the building and contractor' board, or any lawful order of the building inspector in his capacity as chief building official, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this article are committed, continued or permitted.

Section 15-4. Violations, penalties.

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or of the gas installation rules and regulations, or to cause, permit or suffer the same to be done; and any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or of the said gas installation rules and regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Section 28-3. Violations, penalties.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or the Code hereby adopted, and such violations shall be punishable as is hereinafter provided.

(b) Every person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or the Code hereby adopted shall be subject to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00), or to imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days.

Section 29-41. Violations, penalty.

(a) A violation of this article shall be punished as provided in Section 1-8 of this Code.

(b) The City may, in its discretion, proceed against any violation or violator of this article by abatement, injunction, or other civil actions, which remedies shall be cumulative to the penalties provided in this section.

Section 6. Any and all additions and amendments to such Code when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the "Code of Ordinances, City of Grand Junction, Colorado," shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.

Section 7. It shall be the express duty of the City Clerk or someone authorized by her to insert in their designated places all amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which may be from time to time repealed by the City Council. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.

Section 8. Violations of said Code shall be punished as provided in Section 1-8 thereof, as set out in Section 5 of this Ordinance.

Section 9. In case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 1-8 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended, or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.

PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of October, 1965.

Ray A. Meacham

President of City Council

ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1220, was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 6th day of October, 1965, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 21st day of October, 1965.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

Published: October 9, 1965

Published: October 23, 1965