If any part, parts, section, provision, clause, or portions of this Ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality 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 Eaton Rapids. It is the intent of this Ordinance to prohibit the expansion or continuance, if abandoned, of uses or structures which were valid pre-existing nonconforming uses or structures prior to the adoption of the prior Eaton Rapids Zoning Ordinance, approved March 22, 1971, if such uses or structures are also prohibited by the provisions of this Ordinance. Accordingly, said prior Zoning Ordinance, approved March 22, 1971, is hereby preserved and not repealed as to such structures or uses which are prohibited by the provisions of both this Ordinance and the same prior Zoning Ordinance.

Regulation modification or alteration of such pre-existing structures or uses in existence prior to March 22, 1971, 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 22, 1971.

The existing Zoning Ordinance of the City of Eaton Rapids, identified as approved March 22, 1971, is hereby repealed.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 was approved by the Eaton Rapids City Council on this thirteenth day of August, 2001, and is in full effect fifteen (15) days following the publication of Notice of the Ordinance adoption by the City in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Eaton Rapids, pursuant to the provisions of Section 125.584 of Public Act 207, as amended.