If any part, parts, section, sections, provision, clause or portions of this ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or unconstitutionality of the ordinance as a whole or of any other part, section, clause, provision or portion of this ordinance.

The enactment of this ordinance shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of an ordinance of Boyne City. It is the intent of this ordinance to prohibit the expansion, or continuance, if abandoned, of uses or structures which were valid preexisting nonconforming uses or structures prior to the adoption of the prior Boyne City Zoning Ordinance, A-28 effective March 25, 1982, as amended, if such uses or structures are also prohibited by the provisions of this ordinance. Accordingly, said prior Zoning Ordinance (A-28) is hereby preserved and not repealed as to such structures or uses which are prohibited by the provisions of both this ordinance and the same prior Zoning Ordinance A-28.

Regulation modification or alteration of such pre-existing structures or uses in existence prior to March 25, 1982, shall be governed by the provisions of this ordinance; however, in order to be classified as a valid pre-existing nonconforming use under the provisions of this ordinance, such use or structure must have been validly in existence and use prior to March 25, 1982.

The existing zoning regulations of the City of Boyne City, identified as A-28 effective March 25, 1982, are hereby repealed.

The adoption of this ordinance, however, shall not affect nor prevent any pending or future prosecution of, or action to abate, any existing violation of said zoning ordinance, as amended, if the violation is also a violation of the provisions of this ordinance.

This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after May 23, 2001. Enacted by the Boyne City Commission at a regular meeting held at 319 North Lake Street, Boyne City, Michigan on Tuesday, May 8, 2001, at 7:00 p.m.