CITY OF MONROE CODE

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CONTAINING THE
CHARTER
AND THE
GENERAL ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY

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Adopted: July 13, 1982
Effective: August 1, 1982

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Published in 1982 by Order of the City Council
Reformatted in 2010

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OFFICIALS

of the

CITY OF

MONROE, LOUISIANA

AT THE TIME OF THIS CODIFICATION

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Robert E. Powell

Mayor

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D. Milton Moore, III—District I

Gene F. Tarver—District II (Chairman)

Bennie J. Ausberry—District III

Tyson D. Bordelon—District IV

Charles H. Johnson—District V

City Council

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(Mrs.) Gennie Barnes

Clerk of Council

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Charles Hamaker

City Attorney

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Mr. M. J. Cook

Director of Administration

CURRENT OFFICIALS

of the

CITY OF

MONROE, LOUISIANA

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James E. Mayo

Mayor

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Mr. Michael Echols, District 1—(Chairman)

Mrs. Gretchen Ezernack, District 2

Ms. Juanita Woods, District 3—(Vice Chairman)

Mr. Kenneth Wilson, District 4

Mr. Eddie Clark, District 5

City Council

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Mrs. Carolus S. Riley, CMC, MMC

Clerk of Council

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Mrs. Nanci Summersgill

City Attorney

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Mr. David L. Barnes, Jr.

Director of Administration

PREFACE

This Code constitutes a complete recodification of the ordinances of the City of Monroe of a general and permanent nature. As expressed in the Adopting Ordinance, the Code supersedes all such ordinances not included herein or recognized as continuing in force by reference thereto.

Source materials used in the preparation of the Code were the 1958 Monroe City Code as supplemented through January 24, 1978 and ordinances subsequently adopted by the governing body. The source of each section is included in the history note appearing in parentheses at the end thereof. The absence of such a note indicates that the section is new and was adopted for the first time with the adoption of the Code. By use of the Comparative Tables appearing in the back of the volume, the reader can locate any section of the Code and any subsequent ordinance included herein. A table listing the state law citations and setting forth their location within the Code is included at the back of this volume.

Numbering System

The numbering system used in this Code is the same system used in many state and local government codes. Each section number consists of two component parts separated by a dash, the figure before the dash representing the chapter number and the figure after the dash indicating the position of the section within the chapter. Thus, the first section of chapter 1 is numbered 1-1 and the sixth section of chapter 10 is 10-6. Under this system, each section is identified with its chapter, and, at the same time, new sections or even whole chapters can be inserted in their proper places, simply by using the decimal system for amendments. By way of illustration: If new material consisting of three sections that would logically come between sections 5-4 and 5-5 is desired to be added, such new sections would be numbered 5-4.1, 5-4.2 and 5-4.3 respectively. New chapters may be included in the same manner. If the new material is to be included between chapters 12 and 13 it will be designated as chapter 12.5. Care should be taken that the alphabetical arrangement of chapters is maintained when including new chapters. New articles and new divisions may be included in the same way or, in the case of articles, may be placed at the end of the chapter embracing the subject, and, in the case of divisions, may be placed at the end of the article embracing the subject, the next successive number being assigned to the article or division.

Indices

The indices have been prepared with the greatest of care. Each particular item has been placed under several headings, some of the headings being couched in lay phraseology, others in legal terminology and still others in language generally used by government officials and employees. There are numerous cross references within the indices themselves which stand as guideposts to direct the user to the particular item in which he is interested.

Looseleaf Supplements

A special feature of this Code is the looseleaf system of binding and supplemental service by which the Code will be kept up-to-date periodically. Upon the final passage of amendatory ordinances, they will be properly edited and the page or pages affected will be reprinted. These new pages will be distributed to holders of copies of the Code, with instructions for the manner of inserting the new pages and deleting the obsolete pages. Each such amendment, when incorporated into the Code, may be cited as a part thereof, as provided in section 5 of the Adopting Ordinance.

The successful maintenance of this Code up-to-date at all times will depend largely upon the holder of the volume. As revised sheets are received it will then become the responsibility of the holder to have the amendments inserted according to the attached instructions. It is strongly recommended by the publishers that all such amendments be inserted immediately upon receipt to avoid misplacing them and, in addition, that all deleted pages be saved and filed for historical reference purposes.

Acknowledgments

The publication of this Code was under the direct supervision of George R. Langford, President, and Roger D. Merriam, Editor, of the Municipal Code Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida. Credit is gratefully given to the other members of the publisher's staff for their sincere interest and able assistance throughout the project.

The publishers are most grateful to all city officers and employees for their cooperation and assistance during the progress of the work on this Code.

July, 1982

MUNICIPAL CODE CORPORATION
Tallahassee, Florida

ORDINANCE NO. 7411

STATE OF LOUISIANA
CITY OF MONROE

The following Ordinance was offered by Mr. Moore who moved for its adoption and was seconded by Mr. Ausberry:

An Ordinance Adopting and Enacting a Revised City of Monroe Code; Providing for the Repeal of Certain Ordinances Not Included Therein, Except as Herein Expressly Provided; Providing for the Manner of Amending Such Code of Ordinances; Providing a Penalty for the Violation Thereof; Providing When Such Code and This Ordinance Shall Become Effective and Further Providing With Respect Thereto.

Be It Ordained, by the City Council of the City of Monroe, Louisiana, in legal session convened that:

Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, consisting of Chapters 1 to 37, each inclusive, prepared by the Municipal Code Corporation, a copy of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof, be and is hereby adopted and enacted as the "City of Monroe Code," and shall be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive Code of Ordinances which shall supersede all other general and permanent ordinances adopted into the Code of Ordinances of the City of Monroe on or before December 23, 1980, to the extent provided in section 2 hereof.

Section 2. That all provisions of said Code shall be in full force and effect from and after August 1, 1982, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Monroe, adopted on and entered into the Code of Ordinances of the City of Monroe, final passage on or before December 23, 1980, and not included in this Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein, are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of such Code.

Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 2 shall not effect ordinances providing for the description or extension of the corporate limits of the City; promising or guaranteeing the payment of money to or by the City, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City or any evidence of the City's indebtedness; or any contract or obligation assumed by or in favor of the City; or administrative ordinances or resolutions of the City Council not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of such Code; or any right of franchise granted by any ordinance or resolution of the City Council, or any preceding governing body to any person, firm or corporation; or any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening or vacating any street or public way in the City; or the annual or capital budget or appropriation ordinances or resolutions; or ordinances relating to the street grades of any street in the City; or ordinances relating to local improvements and assessing taxes therefor; or ordinances relating to the levying or imposing of taxes; or ordinances relating to the dedication or acceptance of any plat or subdivision in the City; or ordinances relating to special uses of property within any established zoning districts of the City; or any ordinance or other Code, or parts thereof, adopted by reference by any section of this Code and not included therein; nor shall such repeal be construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by this ordinance.

Section 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association, organization or corporation to violate or fail to comply with any provision of the "City of Monroe Code" hereby adopted, or any amendment thereto.

Section 5. That whenever in such Code an Act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor by the City Council or whenever in such Code the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful by the City Council, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions of such Code shall be punished as provided in section 1-11 of such Code.

Section 6. Any and all additions and amendments to such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the council to make the same a part of such Code, shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code, so that reference to such Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments. Any ordinance adopted after December 23, 1980, which amends or references to ordinances which have been codified in such Code, shall be construed as if they amend or refer to like provisions of such Code.

Section 7. That in case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty, as provided in section 1-11 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended, or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.

Section 8. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk, preserved in looseleaf form or in such other form as the clerk may consider most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the clerk or someone authorized by said officer, to insert in their designated places all amendments and all ordinances or resolutions which indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same part of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which from time to time may be repealed by the City Council. This copy of such Code shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.

Section 9. That all ordinances or part of ordinances in conflict herewith, are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed.

Section 10. That this ordinance shall become effective on August 1st, 1982.

Section 11. That the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Code.

This Ordinance was INTRODUCED on the 22nd day of June, 1982.

NOTICE PUBLISHED on the 29th day of June, 1982.

This Ordinance having been submitted in writing, introduced and published, was then submitted to a vote as a whole, the vote thereon being as follows:

AYES: Councilmen Moore, Tarver, Ausberry, Bordelon and Johnson

NAYS: None

ABSENT: None

And the Ordinance was declared ADOPTED on the 13th day of July, 1982.

Gene Tarver
Chairman

Gennie Barnes
City Clerk

Robert E. Powell
Mayor's Approval

(SEAL)

A TRUE COPY

Gennie Barnes
Secretary