Adams Township Butler County
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIV
Enactment
§ 192-96 Severability.
Should any section or provision of this chapter or the application of any provision to particular circumstances be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole, or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid. In such case, should any section or provision be declared invalid or void, and the effect would be that there be no zoning, regulations or standards in effect which would be applicable to the particular lot or situation, then the zoning, regulations and standards which were in effect and adopted pursuant to Ordinance No. 493, enacted August 10, 1965, shall apply.
§ 192-97 Nonseverability.
The provisions of Article V are not severable. In the event any portion of this chapter shall be determined to be invalid or unenforceable, it is the intention of the Township that the zoning overlay districts established by this chapter be eliminated in their entirety, with the zoning classification of property within the zoning overlay districts reverting to the underlying zoning districts.
§ 192-98 Continuity.
A.
The provisions of this chapter, so far as they are common to those zoning regulations in force immediately prior to the enactment of this chapter, are intended as a continuation of such prior regulations and not as new enactments. Such parts of the prior regulations that are omitted from this chapter shall be deemed as abrogated, except as they may continue to apply to uses, structures, and subdivided lots existing legally as of the date of enactment of this chapter and protected by express provisions of this chapter.
B.
The adoption of this chapter does not make legitimate development activity in the Township illegal under provisions of the prior regulations, nor does it annul any litigation currently being pursued or that may be pursued in the future against such illegal activity.