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Events this week in the court house underline the necessity of codifying county ordinances.
At Monday’s supervisor session, Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke and Sheriff John Henry Woodward proposed minor changes to Rappahannock’s local tag law. The changes, which will be advertised for public hearing, will give both current residents buying a new car and newcomers moving to the county 30 days to purchase a county sticker. The discussion prompted Supervisor Nelson Lane, a newcomer to the board, to ask for a copy of all county ordinances.
His request brought only laughter. Lane’s fellow board members explained that there is no compilation of county ordinances.The only records of the local laws enacted for Rappahannock County are buried in the minute books of supervisor meetings going back more than half a century.
Then in District Court on Tuesday, a case was dismissed because no record could be found of the adoption of a county burning law. Supposidly, a local ordinance was passed some years ago but when Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke couldn’ old minute books, dismissed.
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These two instances point out the need for someone to go back through the records and find all the old laws so that they can be updated to comply with state statutes and then codified. Once com
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