§ 1-7. Ordinances not affected by adoption of Code.

The repeal provided for in the ordinance adopting this Code shall not affect 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. If any penalty, forfeiture or punishment is mitigated by any provision of a new ordinance, such provision may be, by the consent of the party affected, applied to any judgment announced after the new ordinance takes effect;

(2)

Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment of money by the town, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the town, or any evidence of the town's indebtedness, or any contract, agreement, lease, deed or other instrument or obligation assumed by the town or creating interest and sinking funds;

(3)

Any right or franchise, permit, or other right granted by any ordinance, except as this Code may contain provision for such matters, in which case this Code shall be considered as amending such ordinance in respect of such provisions only;

(4)

Any personnel regulations;

(5)

Any ordinance establishing salaries of town officers and employees or civil service rules;

(6)

Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, repairing or vacating any street, alley or other public way in the town;

(7)

Any ordinance establishing and prescribing the street grades in the town;

(8)

Any appropriation ordinance or any ordinance levying or imposing taxes;

(9)

Any ordinance providing for local improvements and assessing taxes for such improvements;

(10)

Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the town;

(11)

Any ordinance establishing the official plat of the town;

(12)

Any zoning map amendment or rezoning ordinance;

(13)

Any ordinance annexing territory or excluding territory from the town;

(14)

Any ordinance prescribing traffic regulations for specific locations, prescribing through streets, parking limitations, parking prohibitions, one-way traffic, limitations on loads of vehicles or loading zones;

(15)

Any ordinance creating special districts;

(16)

Any ordinance prescribing rates, fees or charges; and

(17)

Any ordinance calling a municipal election.

(Code 2003, § 1-10; Ord. No. 10-15, § 1(exh. A), 8-19-2010; altered in 2018 recodification)

State law reference

Authority of town to omit designated classes of ordinances from Code, G.S. 160A-77.