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File #: 01839    Version: 1 Name: City Attorney's Revisor's Ordinance
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/22/2005 In control: COMMON COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE (ended 4/2017)
On agenda: 10/18/2005 Final action: 10/18/2005
Enactment date: 11/8/2005 Enactment #: ORD-05-00167
Title: Amending, creating and repealing various sections of the Madison General Ordinances to correct inconsistencies and improper references in the Madison General Ordinances, constituting the 2005 City Attorney Revisor's Ordinance.
Sponsors: Common Council By Request
Attachments: 1. Editor's Notes.pdf, 2. Ordinance Revisor Report.pdf
Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
Title
Amending, creating and repealing various sections of the Madison General Ordinances to correct inconsistencies and improper references in the Madison General Ordinances, constituting the 2005 City Attorney Revisor's Ordinance.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance is being introduced under the authority granted to the City Attorney by Sections 2.05(6)3. and 9. and 3.15(1) of the Madison General Ordinances, and is intended to correct various inconsistencies and errors within the Madison General Ordinances, to clarify certain current practices, and to repeal certain sections which were invalidated by state law. Please see the Report of the City Attorney for a section-by-section analysis.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Section 1.12 of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:

"1.12 SEVERABILITY.
(1) This section applies to and is considered part of every ordinance and resolution adopted by the Common Council.
(2) The provisions of any part of this ordinance or resolution are severable. If any provision or subsection or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the other provisions, subsections and applications of such ordinance or resolution to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. It is declared to be the intent of this section that the same would have been adopted had such invalid provisions, if any, not been included."

2. Current Subdivisions 1. through 9. of Subsection (6) of Section 2.05 entitled "Introduction to Business" of the Madison General Ordinances are renumbered to Subdivisions a. through i.

"(6) Unless otherwise provided in these ordinances, no ordinance or resolution shall be introduced
unless it is sponsored by a member of the Common Council or the Mayor or both. Use of a Common Council me...

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