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Adoption of Code

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Charlottesville,
that:

Section 1. There is hereby adopted by the City Council that
certain Code entitled "The Code of the City of Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1965," containing certain ordinances of a general
and permanent nature as compiled, consolidated, codified and
indexed in Chapters 1 to 36, both inclusive, of which Code not
less than three copies have been and are now filed in the office
of the Clerk of the City Council.

Section 2. The provisions of such Code shall be in force on
and after February 1, 1966, and all ordinances of a general
and permanent nature adopted on final reading and passage
on or before June 21, 1965, and not contained in such Code are
hereby repealed from and after February 1, 1966, except as
hereinafter provided.

Section 3. The repeal provided for in the preceding section
of this ordinance shall not affect any offense or act committed
or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract
or right established or accruing before February 1, 1966; nor
shall it affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or
any judgment rendered prior to February 1, 1966; nor shall
such repeal affect any ordinance or resolution promising or
guaranteeing the payment of money for the city or authorizing
the issue of any bonds of the city or any evidence of the
city's indebtedness or any contract or obligation assumed by
the city; nor shall it affect the annual appropriation ordinance;
nor shall it affect any ordinance levying taxes on real
or personal property; nor shall it affect any right or franchise
conferred by ordinance or resolution of the city council on
any person or corporation; nor shall it affect any ordinance

adopted for purposes which have been consummated; nor
shall it affect any ordinance which is temporary, although
general in effect, or special, although permanent in effect;
nor shall it affect any ordinance relating to the salaries of the
city officers or employees; nor shall it affect any ordinance
annexing territory to the city; nor shall it affect any ordinance
naming, renaming, opening, accepting or vacating
streets or alleys in the city; nor shall it affect any ordinance
imposing license or privilege taxes; nor shall it affect the
Building Code of the city, adopted August 18, 1952, or any
amendment thereto; nor shall it affect the Subdivision Ordinance
of the city, adopted January 21, 1958, or any amendment
thereto; nor shall it affect the Zoning Ordinance of the
city, adopted February 17, 1958, or any amendment thereto;
nor shall it affect any ordinance authorizing trustees of any
church to hold land in the city for duly permitted church
purposes; nor shall it affect any ordinance adopted on final
reading and passage after June 21, 1965.

Section 4. Whenever in the Code adopted by this ordinance
or in any other ordinance of the city or in any rule, regulation
or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city
under authority duly vested in him or it any act is prohibited
or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a
misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required or the
failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense
or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor,
the violation of any such provision of such Code or any
other ordinance of the city or such rule, regulation or order
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.

Except where otherwise provided, every day any violation
of such Code or any other ordinance of the city or such rule,
regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate
offense.

Section 5. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the
City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this ordinance and the Code hereby adopted
are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph
or section of this ordinance or the Code hereby adopted shall
be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid

judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections
of this ordinance or the Code hereby adopted.

Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect February 1, 1966.