An ordinance readopting the Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, prepared by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., including supplemental and replacement pages thereof, containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before March 1, 2005.

WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government, by Ordinance No. O91-1680, approved the re-codified Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County as prepared by Book Publishing Company; and

WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government, by Ordinance No. BL2004-265, approved an amendment to the codification contract to change the contractor name to Matthew & Bender, the successor-in-interest to Book Publishing Company; and

WHEREAS, Matthew Bender & Co. has completed certain supplemental and replacement pages for the Code of the Metropolitan Government dated Nashville 4-05;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:

Section 1. There is hereby re-adopted by the Metropolitan County Council that certain Code entitled "The Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee" prepared by Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before November 16, 2004, as compiled, consolidated, codified, and indexed in Titles 1 to 17, including those supplemental and replacement pages having in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner thereof the notation (Nashville 4-05).

Section 2. At least two copies of the Code hereby re-adopted containing the supplemental and replacement pages properly inserted therein shall be kept on file in the Office of the Metropolitan Clerk and be kept there available for public inspection and use. In addition, at least two complete sets of the supplemental and replacement pages described in Section 1 hereof shall be stapled or permanently fastened together and kept on file in the Office of the Metropolitan Clerk and be kept there available for public inspection and use.

Section 3. Wherever in the Code re-adopted by this ordinance, or in any other ordinance or resolution of the Metropolitan Government or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the Metropolitan Government under authority duly vested in him or if any act is prohibited or is made or 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 or resolution of the Metropolitan Government or such rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a penalty not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00).

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

Section 4. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Metropolitan County Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentence clauses, phrases and words of this ordinance and the Code hereby adopted are severable, and if any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word

of this ordinance or of such Code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by any valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, and words of this ordinance or of such Code, since the same would have been enacted by the Metropolitan County Council without the incorporation in the Code of any such unconstitutional or invalid section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word.

Section 5. The supplement and replacement pages to the Code of the Metropolitan Government described in Section 1 and approved herein shall be distributed upon request to the various departments of the Metropolitan Government free of charge. Any other persons or organization desiring a copy thereof may obtain the same from Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. in accordance with the contract between codifier and the Metropolitan Government. The Metropolitan Clerk shall notify all Davidson County Judges of the Metropolitan General Sessions, Circuit, Chancery and Criminal Courts that the supplemental and replacement pages to the Code of the Metropolitan Government which are described in Section 1 hereof are available.

Section 6. The ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

Sponsored by: Sam Coleman

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Introduced:	June 7, 2005
Passed First Reading:	June 7, 2005
Referred to:	Rules & Confirmations Committee
Passed Second Reading:	June 21, 2005
Passed Third Reading:	June 28, 2005
Approved:	June 29, 2005
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