§ 1-102. Powers.

(a)

The City of Atlanta (hereinafter at times referred to as "city") shall be the legal continuation of and successor to said city as heretofore incorporated; and may contract and be contracted with; may sue and be sued, and plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity and in all action whatsoever, and do all other acts relating to its corporate capacity; may purchase, lease or otherwise acquire such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold or in any manner conveyed or dedicated to or otherwise acquired by it, and from time to time may hold or invest, lease, sell or dispose of any such property; and shall have and use an official seal.

(b)

The city shall have all powers necessary and proper to promote the safety, health, peace, and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants.

(c)

The city shall have all powers now vested in the city and now or hereafter granted to municipal corporations by the laws of Georgia and shall have the power to do the following:

(1)

To levy and to provide for the assessment, valuation, revaluation, and collection of taxes on all property subject to taxation;

(2)

To levy and provide for the collection of license fees and taxes on privileges, occupations, trades, and professions, not in conflict with the general law of this state, and to license and regulate such privileges, occupations, trades, and professions and to provide for the manner and method of payment of such licenses and taxes;

(3)

To assess, charge, and collect rentals, interests, fees, penalties, fines, and costs; to assess and collect fees, charges, and tolls for sewer and water services under such rules and regulations prescribed by ordinance; to levy and collect garbage, trash, refuse, and rubbish collection service charges and sanitary taxes under such rules and regulations as prescribed by ordinance; to collect income on investments and to accept funds, services, or property from other political subdivisions and public agencies, either local, state, or national, and from private persons, firms, or corporations;

(4)

To make appropriations for the support of the government of the city, to authorize the expenditure of money for any purposes authorized by this Charter and for any purpose for which a municipality is authorized by the laws of the State of Georgia, and to provide for the payment of expenses of the city;

(5)

To appropriate and borrow money to provide for payment of the debts of the city and to issue bonds for the purpose of raising revenue to carry out any project, program, or venture authorized under this Charter or the general laws of the state; provided, however, such bonding authority shall be exercised in accordance with the laws governing the issuance of bonds by municipalities;

(6)

To acquire, dispose of, and hold in trust or otherwise any real, personal, or mixed property, or any interest therein, inside or outside the corporate boundaries of the city and to dispose of said property or any interest therein by sale, lease, or easement;

(7)

To accept or refuse gifts, donations, bequests, or grants from any source for any purpose related to the powers and duties of the city and the general welfare of its citizens, on such terms and conditions as the donor or grantor may impose;

(8)

To condemn property, inside or outside the corporate boundaries of the city, for present or future use, and for any corporate purpose deemed necessary by the council, under Title 22 of the O.C.G.A., as now or hereafter amended, including but not limited to an Act approved Feb. 20, 1945 (Ga. L. 1945, p. 690), granting to the city a fee simple title to property condemned upon payment of the condemnation of money, or under other applicable state Acts, including but not limited to an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved March 2, 1953 (Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 360), as now or hereafter amended, and Section 6 of an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3025, Sec. 6). The city may also condemn any real property or interest therein necessary for the collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal of sewage, and other sanitary purposes both inside and outside the city, including but not limited to the waters known as Tanyard Branch and adjacent land. In addition, the city shall be authorized to construct water and sewer utility lines through private property by condemnation or agreement; provided, however, that the condemnation of an existing public use shall be denied unless it can be shown that the specific property to be condemned is absolutely essential to the condemning authority and the use to be condemned does not materially impair the existing public use;

(9)

To acquire, lease, construct, operate, maintain, regulate, control, sell, and dispose of public utilities, including but not limited to a system of waterworks, sewers and drains, sewage disposal, natural gas systems, electrical power systems, transportation facilities, airports, and any other public utility inside and outside the corporate limits; to fix the taxes, charges, rates, fares, fees, assessments, regulations, and liens, penalties, and withdrawal of service for refusal or failure to pay same and the manner in which such remedies shall be enforced, provided liens shall be enforced in the same manner and with the same remedies as a lien for city property taxes; to assess the cost or a portion of the cost of such facilities and services against abutting property under such rules, procedures, terms, and conditions of payment and enforcement thereof as provided by ordinance.

(10)

To grant franchises or make contracts for public utilities and public services as provided by law. The council may prescribe the rates, fares, regulations, and standards and conditions of service applicable to the service to be provided by the franchise grantee or contractor, insofar as not in conflict with such regulations by the Public Service Commission, and may grant franchises and rights-of-way throughout the streets and roads, and over the bridges and viaducts, for the use of public utilities; the council may extend, renew, or amend a franchise at any time by mutual agreement of the parties and by adoption thereof by the council at two consecutive meetings. In all other cases, the council shall have no authority or power to grant, consent to, or permit the extension, removal, or change of the term for which franchises have been or may be granted or in any way to extend or renew the time for which permission has been or may be given to occupy the streets and public places, except and only during the 12 months immediately preceding the expiration of the term of such franchises and permit; and all extensions and renewals made in violation of this section shall be void;

(11)

To lay out, open, extend, widen, narrow, establish or change the grade of, vacate, abandon, or close, construct, pave, repave, curb, gutter, adorn with shade trees, otherwise improve, maintain, repair, clean, prevent erosion of, and light streets, alleys, sidewalks, and walkways within the corporate limits of the city; to acquire land for such improvements and to assess the cost or a portion of the cost of payment and enforcement thereof against abutting property under such rules, procedures, terms, and conditions as provided by ordinance;

(12)

To undertake and expend tax or nontax funds to foster mutual understanding, tolerance, respect, and improvement of human relations among all citizens of the city;

(13)

To establish and fix a system of grading and draining of the streets of the city; and to cause the owners of lots or cellars to drain or fill the same to the level of the streets or alleys upon which said lots or cellars are located. After reasonable notice, the city shall be authorized to have said lots or cellars so drained or filled and the amount so expended collected by executions against the owner or occupant thereof;

(14)

To acquire, lease, construct, operate, maintain, regulate, control, sell, and dispose of public ways, parks, public grounds, cemeteries, markets, and market houses, public buildings, libraries, airports, auditoriums, and charitable, educational, recreational, conservation, sport, curative, corrective, detentional, penal, and medical institutions, agencies, and facilities; and any other public improvements, inside or outside the corporate limits of the city; and to regulate the use thereof, and for such purposes, property may be acquired by condemnation under Title 22 of the O.C.G.A., as now or hereafter amended, or other applicable public Acts, or under any power or procedure of eminent domain now or hereafter provided by the General Assembly of Georgia;

(15)

To require estate owners to repair and maintain in a safe condition the sidewalks adjoining their lots or lands; and to enact ordinances establishing the term and conditions under which such repairs and maintenance shall be effected, including the penalties to be imposed for failure to do so;

(16)

To regulate the erection and construction of buildings and all other structures; to adopt building, housing, plumbing, electrical, gas, and heating and air conditioning codes and to regulate all housing, building, and building trades; to license all building trades; and to license the construction and erection of buildings and all other structures;

(17)

To regulate or prohibit junk dealers; to regulate and control billiard rooms; to regulate and control pawnshops; to regulate the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors; to regulate the use and sale of firearms; and to regulate the transportation, storage, and use of combustible, explosive, and inflammable materials, the use of lighting and heating equipment, and any other business or situation which may be dangerous to persons or property;

(18)

To regulate and control the conduct of peddlers, and itinerant trades, theatrical performances, exhibitions, or shows of any kind whatever, by taxation or otherwise;

(19)

To license, tax, regulate, or prohibit professional fortunetelling or palmistry;

(20)

To prohibit or regulate and control the erection, removal, and maintenance of signs, billboards, trees, shrubs, fences, buildings, and any and all other structures or obstructions upon or adjacent to the rights-of-way of streets and roads or within view thereof, within or abutting the corporate limits of the city, and to prescribe penalties and punishment for violation of such ordinances;

(21)

To prescribe standards of safety and sanitation and to provide for the enforcement of such standards;

(22)

To regulate emission of smoke or other exhaust which pollutes the air and to prevent the pollution of natural streams which flow within the corporate limits of the city;

(23)

To fix and establish fire limits and from time to time extend, enlarge, or restrict same; to prescribe fire safety regulations not inconsistent with general law, relating to both fire prevention and detection and to fire fighting, and to prescribe penalties and punishment for violation thereof;

(24)

To provide for the destruction and removal of any building or other structure which may or might become dangerous or detrimental to the public;

(25)

To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage, rubbish, and refuse and to regulate the collection and disposal of garbage, rubbish, and refuse by others; and to provide for the separate collection of glass, tin, aluminum, cardboard, paper, and other recyclable materials and to provide for the sale of such items; and to establish and operate incinerators for the purpose of disposal of garbage and other refuse of the city;

(26)

To levy, fix, assess, and collect a garbage, refuse, and trash collection and disposal and other sanitary service charge, tax, or fee for such services as may be necessary in the operation of the city from all individuals, firms, and corporations residing in or doing business therein benefiting from such services; to enforce the payment of such charges, taxes, or fees and to provide for the manner and method of collecting such service charges, provided that any such charges, taxes, or fees, if unpaid, shall constitute a debt which shall be subject to a lien against any property of persons served, which lien shall be enforceable in the same manner, and under the same remedies, as a lien for city property taxes;

(27)

To levy a fee, charge, or sewer tax as necessary to assure the acquiring, constructing, equipping, operating, maintaining, and extending of a sewage disposal plant and sewage system and to levy on the users of sewers and the sewerage system a sewer service charge, fee, or sewer tax for the use of the sewers; and to provide for the manner and method of collecting such service charges and for enforcing payment of same;

(28)

To charge, impose, and collect a sewer connection fee or fees and to change the same from time to time; such fees to be levied on the users connecting with the sewerage system;

(29)

To define, regulate, and prohibit any act, practice, conduct, or use of property which is detrimental, or likely to be detrimental, to the health, sanitation, cleanliness, welfare, and safety of the inhabitants of the city and to provide for the enforcement of such standards;

(30)

To define a nuisance in the city and to provide for its abatement; to cause nuisances which are likely to endanger the health of the city or any neighborhood therein to be abated in an summary manner at the expense of the party whose act or negligence caused such nuisance, or of the owner of the property upon which the same may be located, as the council shall elect. The council may provide by ordinance for any building, structure, or condition maintained in violation of any valid law of this state or any valid ordinance of the city to be adjudged a nuisance and for its abatement at the owner's expense upon failure or refusal to abate the same within ten days after written notice and hearing from the city to do so, said expense to be a lien upon the property for which execution may issue as for property taxes;

(31)

To provide for the preservation and protection of property and equipment of the city and the administration and use of same by the public and to prescribe penalties and punishment for violations thereof;

(32)

To establish minimum standards for, and to regulate building construction and repair, electrical wiring and equipment, gas installation and equipment, plumbing, and housing for the health, sanitation, cleanliness, welfare, and safety of inhabitants of the city and to provide for the enforcement of such standards; to require adequate fire escapes on buildings; and to regulate or restrict smoking in public places, dangerous substances, and weapons;

(33)

To provide that persons given jail sentences in the municipal court shall work out such sentences in any public works or on the public streets of the city as provided by ordinance; or the council may provide for the commitment of city prisoners to any county or other correctional institution, to jail, or to any other government agency, by agreement with the appropriate county officers or any other government agencies; or the council may provide programs of conditional leave or furlough persons given sentences by any court prior to completion of such sentences;

(34)

To adopt ordinances and regulations for the prevention and punishment of disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, and disturbing the peace in the corporate limits of the city and to prohibit the playing of lotteries, except as otherwise authorized under the Constitution and general laws of this state, and to prohibit and regulate by ordinance such other conduct and activities within said city which, while not constituting an offense against the laws of this state, is deemed by the council to be detrimental and offensive to the peace and good order of the city or to the welfare of the citizens thereof;

(35)

To regulate and license, or prohibit, the keeping or running at large of animals and fowl and to provide for the impoundment of same in violation of any ordinance or lawful orders; also to provide for their disposition, by sale, gift, or humane destruction, when not redeemed as provided by ordinance; to provide for the location, use, and cleanliness of private stables; to forbid the erection of such stables when they are likely to be injurious to the health of citizens; and to provide punishment for violation of ordinances enacted hereunder;

(36)

To regulate and license vehicles operated for hire in the city; to limit the number of such vehicles; to require the operators thereof to be licensed; to require public liability insurance on such vehicles in amounts prescribed by ordinance; to regulate and rent parking spaces in public ways for the use of such vehicles; to regulate transportation lines and terminals, pedestrian and vehicle traffic, parking, and common carriers;

(37)

To regulate the operation of motor vehicles and exercise control over all traffic, including parking, upon or across the streets, roads, alleys, and walkways of the city;

(38)

To provide that upon the conviction of the violation of any ordinance, rule, regulation, or order such person shall be punished as provided by ordinance but not exceeding any limitations now or hereafter prescribed by the Charter;

(39)

To develop for park or recreational purposes land adjacent to the banks of rivers, creeks, and other streams in counties of which the city is a part, which is now owned by the city or which may be dedicated or otherwise acquired by it for such purposes; and to solicit and accept grants of land adjacent to said banks and use the same for such purpose; and to abate in any manner provided by law any pollution of said rivers, creeks, or other streams caused by deleterious substances such as sewage of any kind, brush, logs, or other deleterious matter or things; and any of such pollution shall constitute a nuisance;

(40)

To levy taxes and to make appropriations for the purpose of advertising the city, its advantages, and resources, so as to bring new capital, commercial, manufacturing, and other enterprises into the city, and also to levy taxes and to make payment from the general revenues and funds of the city for the support of libraries;

(41)

To regulate and control streets, public alleys, and ways and the uses thereof; and to negotiate and execute leases over, through, under, or across any city property or the right-of-way of any public street, public alley, or way or portion thereof for bridges, passageways, or any other purpose or use between buildings on opposite sides of the street and other bridges, overpasses, and underpasses for private use at such locations; and to charge a rental therefor in such manner as may be provided by ordinance;

(42)

To regulate land use by the adoption of zoning ordinances, planning ordinances, and other regulatory ordinances. This power to regulate land use shall include authority to identify, nominate, designate, and regulate historic zones or areas, whether such zones or areas are individual buildings, structures, or sites, or are combinations of buildings, structures, or sites, so as to promote the public health, safety, and morality, and the educational, aesthetic, cultural, economic, and general welfare of the city, by preserving and protecting historic buildings, structures, and sites and combinations thereof. It shall also include authority to empower the Atlanta Urban Design Commission to: prepare inventories and conduct studies and surveys; prepare and promulgate administrative design criteria for historic zones or areas; apply for and use public or private funds; hold public hearings; review urban design aspects, including works of art, of public projects and private projects impacting public property; identify, nominate, and make recommendations regarding historic zones or areas; prohibit or authorize, conditionally or otherwise, construction, demolition or alteration within or of designated historic zones or areas and issue permits relative thereto; and in connection therewith, may form a three-person panel of real estate and economic experts to render decisions and advice regarding economic hardships affecting historic properties; administer Atlanta's historic preservation regulations; promulgate administrative rules governing the commission's operating procedures; and perform other similar historic preservation and urban design functions. It shall also include authority to provide for appeals of final decisions of the urban design commission to the Superior Court of Fulton County;

(43)

To engage the necessary personnel to administer and enforce ordinances, rules, and regulations adopted by the council;

(44)

To inspect, weigh, measure, and otherwise regulate any products grown, mined, manufactured, or otherwise produced or acquired;

(45)

To regulate by licenses, bonds, permits, or otherwise, or restrict, the manufacture, sale, lease, rental, use, or solicitation of any real or personal property and the presentation of any services or spectator activities;

(46)

To regulate or restrict through permits, fees, codes, review boards, or otherwise the construction, use, and maintenance of real or personal property and the emission and disposal thereon or therefrom of any substance that tends to pollute land, water, or air;

(47)

To enforce city ordinances outside the city limits along and for 50 feet on all sides of transportation lines in unincorporated Fulton County and to the end of transportation lines, except as to railroads, along and for 300 feet on all sides of city water mains and along and for ten feet on all sides of the city sewer lines and sewage treatment property;

(48)

To make contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal, state, city, and county governments and their authorities and other agencies for constructing, expanding, examining, and operating any project or facility or performing any function, which the city may be authorized by law to provide or perform;

(49)

To provide for post entry training, blanket surety bonds, federal social security, and other employee services;

(50)

To establish a civil defense plan for the continuity of city government in the event of any enemy attack or other emergency;

(51)

To grant to city police officers the same power in the unincorporated areas of Fulton County to make arrests, to execute and return all criminal warrants and processes, and exercise other powers as peace officers as sheriffs have;

(52)

To build, repair, or put in a safe condition a bridge or the approaches thereto across tracks and roadbeds at the expense, with interest and cost, of a railroad or railroad company in the case of the latter's failure after reasonable notice to do so when the council shall have declared the same necessary for the protection of human life. Execution may issue therefor, as other executions are issued by the city, and be levied on any property of such railroad or railroad company; and such execution shall bear interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall require railroads or railroad companies to build bridges otherwise than is required by the general laws of this state, or the Charter of such railroad companies, respectively, except in all cases in which a public street was in existence before the tracks of any such railroad or railroad companies were laid or placed across any such public streets;

(53)

Group life insurance for all officers and employees of the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Board of Education shall be managed by a board of trustees consisting of 18 trustees, whose initial terms of office shall commence on the third Thursday in March, 1978. Twelve trustees shall be elected for staggered terms of four years as follows: Two by employees of the City of Atlanta's Department of Public Works, two by employees of the City of Atlanta's Department of Public Safety, six by officers and employees of the Atlanta Board of Education and two by officers and employees of the City of Atlanta outside the departments, bureaus, and offices set forth above. In February, 1980, and February of each even-numbered year thereafter, an election shall be held to fill the vacancies of those trustees whose terms expire on the third Thursday of March of each such year. For the initial election of said trustees, that trustee of the two trustees elected by employees of the department of public works who receives the larger number of votes from said employees shall serve for a term of four years, with the trustee who receives the fewer number of votes from said employees serving for a term of two years. That trustee of the two trustees elected by employees of the department of public safety who receives the larger number of votes from said employees shall serve for a term of four years, with the trustee who receives the fewer number of votes from said employees serving for a term of two years. Those three trustees of the six trustees elected by officers and employees of the Atlanta Board of Education who receive the largest number of votes from said officers and employees shall serve for terms of four years, with those three trustees who receive the fewest votes from said officers and employees serving for terms of two years. That trustee of the two trustees elected by officers and employees of other departments, bureaus, and offices who receives the larger number of votes from said officers and employees shall serve for a term of four years, with the trustee who receives the fewer number of votes from said officers and employees serving for a term of two years. One trustee shall be elected as chairperson of the board, and one trustee shall be elected as vice-chairperson of the board for terms of two years by the 12 elected members of the board of trustees from among their number, provided that said chairpersonship and vice-chairpersonship shall be held by a representative of City of Atlanta officers and employees and a representative of the Atlanta Board of Education officers and employees on an alternating basis. If said chairperson or vice-chairperson is a licensed insurance agent or counselor, he or she shall not be affiliated with any insurance company with which the board of trustees shall maintain insurance coverage for its officers and employees. The remaining six trustee positions shall be ex officio, nonvoting positions and shall be filled by the city's chief financial officer, who also shall serve as secretary-treasurer of said board, director of purchasing and real estate, and commissioner of the department of personnel and human resources, and the Atlanta Board of Education's comptroller, purchasing agent, and director of the department of personnel and human resources. Said board shall be required to meet at least twice each year. A majority of the voting members shall constitute a quorum for meeting purposes. Said board shall have the power to adopt bylaws putting into effect these provisions and other provisions relating to meetings of the board, the filling of vacancies occurring on said board, and such other matters pertaining to the management of group insurance as may properly come under its supervision. Said board, exclusive of those trustees representing officers and employees of the Atlanta Board of Education, shall also manage the hospitalization and major medical insurance for the officers and employees of the City of Atlanta, including the power to adopt bylaws relating to meetings, election of officers, and such other matters relating to the management of group hospitalization and major medical insurance as may properly come under its supervision;

(54)

To make, ordain, and establish such bylaws, ordinances, rules, and regulations as shall appear necessary for the security, welfare, convenience, and interest of the city and the inhabitants thereof and for preserving the health, peace, order, and good government of the city;

(55)

To establish procedures for determining and proclaiming that an emergency situation exists inside or outside the city, and to make and carry out all reasonable provisions deemed necessary to deal with or meet such an emergency for the protection, safety, health, or well-being of the citizens of the city;

(56)

To exercise and enjoy all other powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities necessary or desirable to promote or protect the safety, health, peace, security, good order, comfort, convenience, morals, and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants; to exercise all implied powers necessary to carry into execution all powers granted in this Charter, as fully and completely as if such powers were fully enumerated herein; to exercise all powers now or in the future authorized to be exercised by other municipal government under the Constitution and general laws of the State of Georgia, and to do, perform, and render (or refrain therefrom) all things necessary or convenient to the carrying out of the objects of the powers, duties, and requirements set forth anywhere in this Charter. No enumeration of particular powers in this Charter shall be held to be exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words and phrases granting powers, but shall be held to be in addition to such powers unless expressly prohibited to cities under the Constitution or applicable public laws;

(57)

To appropriate moneys from the general fund for the purchase of evidence and the purchase of information by law enforcement officers of the city in the performance of their official duties;

(58)

To exercise the power and to provide services in the area of public housing; to make appropriations and to authorize the expenditure of funds for such purposes; and to provide a definition of public housing;

(59)

To cooperate or join, by contract or otherwise, with other cities, with the state or nation, or other governmental bodies, singly or jointly, or in districts or associations, for promoting or carrying out any of the powers of the city for the sharing of tax base or revenue with other governments, for agreements concerning allocation of taxes among other governments to the extent such allocation is or becomes authorized under the Constitution of Georgia, or for the acquisition, construction, or operation of any works, plants, or structures convenient or necessary for carrying out any of the purposes or objects authorized by this Charter;

(60)

To transfer or consolidate functions of the city government to or with appropriate functions of the state, county, or other municipal government, or to make use of such functions of the state, county, or other municipal government and, in the case of any such transfer or consolidation, the provisions of this Charter and code of ordinances providing for the function of the city government so transferred or consolidated shall be deemed suspended during the continuation of such transfer or consolidation to the extent that such suspension is made necessary or convenient by said transfer or consolidation and is set forth in the contract or other document establishing such transfer or consolidation.

(61)

To establish one or more special districts within which commercial and residential property owners may voluntarily consent to the installation of energy and water conservation improvements and to the imposition of a fee, tax or assessment which may be assigned through contract with the city's development authority or downtown development authority in order to provide financing for the installation or modification of improvements that reduce energy or water consumption or provide improvements that produce energy from renewable resources; to provide for the imposition of liens and penalties for failure to pay the fee, tax or assessment, provided that such liens shall be enforced in the same manner and with the same remedies as a lien for city property taxes and shall be co-equal and on a parity basis with other municipal taxes. Any fee, tax or assessment shall be collected by Fulton County or Dekalb County in the same manner, and on the same dates as other taxes, fees and assessments levied by the City of Atlanta.

(62)

For the protection of public health, welfare, and convenience of the city, and for the adequate provision of police, fire, and other emergency services, to fix and collect a public safety access assessment within the city. The collection of such public safety access assessment due the city shall be enforced by ordinance or resolution in the same manner as authorized by law for the enforcement of the collection and payment of state taxes, fees, or assessments. The public safety access assessment shall be deemed an additional source of municipal funding under subsection (j) of Code Section 46-5-134 of the O.C.G.A. and shall be expended by the city for the purposes of Part 4 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A. The amount of the public safety access assessment shall be recommended annually by the city's chief financial officer, subject to the approval of the city council, to provide sufficient revenue for operation of the city's 9-1-1 communications section. In no event shall the amount of the public safety access assessment per residential parcel exceed fifty dollars ($50.00). In no event shall the total public safety access assessment, combined with the funds received by the city under Part 4 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., exceed the total reserve, capital, and operating costs of the city's 9-1-1 communications section.

(1996 Ga. L. (Act No. 1019), p. 4469; Ord. No. 1996-54, § 1, 7-8-96; Ord. No. 2012-52(12-O-1615), § 1, 12-12-12; Ord. No. 2016-10(16-O-1141), § 1, 5-11-16 ; Ord. No. 2016-43(16-O-1431) , § 1, 11-30-16)