§ 1-11. Certain ordinances not affected by Code.

Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall be construed to repeal or otherwise affect the validity of any of the following:

(1)

Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the effective date of this Code;

(2)

Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the city or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the city or any evidence of the city's indebtedness;

(3)

Any contract or obligation assumed by the city;

(4)

Any and all subdivision regulations;

(5)

Any right or franchise granted by the city;

(6)

Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, opening, widening, paving, etc., any street or public way in the city;

(7)

Any appropriation ordinance, or ordinance levying or imposing any tax;

(8)

Any ordinance which, by its own terms, is effective only for a stated or limited time;

(9)

Any ordinance providing for local improvements and any ordinance making assessments therefor;

(10)

Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any subdivision plat;

(11)

Any ordinance or resolution not in conflict with this Code regulating traffic, on specific streets or portions thereof or in specific areas of the city;

(12)

Any ordinance or resolution establishing city boundary lines or annexing territory to the city;

(13)

Zoning ordinance provisions codified as section 27-1 to section 27-27, inclusive, Code of Decatur, Alabama, 1956, to the extent that such sections are not effectively readopted and brought forward in this Code, although printed herein, in a manner so as to continue in full force and effect;

(14)

Section 27-28, Code of Decatur, Alabama, 1956, as amended. Zoning map amendments will not be codified;

(15)

Rules and regulations which have been printed as a code in book or pamphlet form as authorized by Section 11-45-8, Code of Alabama, 1975, together with amendments thereto, to the extent that such as not effectively readopted and brought forward in this Code, although printed herein, in a manner so as to continue in full force and effect;

(16)

Any ordinance or other action adopted under or pursuant to Act Number 324, Acts of Alabama, 1965 (Regular Session), as amended, including, without limitation, ordinances and resolutions establishing and amending merit system rules, plans and regulations authorized thereunder;

and all such ordinances and other matters are hereby recognized as continuing in full force and effect to the same extent as if set out at length herein.

(Ord. No. 87-2653, § 3, 5-26-87)