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“they’re probably not valid anyway.”
“We know the town’s records are terrible,” Mayor Morehouse said. “We have asked members . to scrounge for records. If we need to add anything which is found, we can advertise and add it at the same time as (we advertise) the first set of amendments.”
Mr. Reynolds added that the Planning Commission had reviewed each ordinance, but that it had not completed work on several items, such as parking and signs. Once the Planning Commission begins work again, he said, what has been done so far will be given to the commissioners.
Mr. Reynolds explained that the recodification involved putting the ordinances, and the amendments adopted last August, on a computer and reassigning numbers in order.
“It’s not changed at all from what passed,” Mr. Wickens added. "It’s only being presented in a form which is easier for the public to read.”
The ordinance for recodification was passed unanimously.
Mr. Wickens also presented a motion for repeal of a 1946 ordinance, which was recently discovered and, according to Mr. Wickens, lacks any evidence of having been repealed.
The ordinance, he said, “is totally inappropriate to our present situation. It purports to regulate sodomy, bowling alleys, firearms and explosives, radios, drunks, pigpens, the discharge of noxious odors by mechanical means ... all enforced by a mayor’s court - of course we don’t have a mayor’s court.
“Punishments are set forth in Article 96 of the municipal code - we
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