For the purposes listed in §§ 59.69, 59.692, 59.694 and 87.30, Wis. Stats., the Board of Supervisors of Price County in regular session do ordain as follows.

This chapter shall be known as, referred to, and cited as the "Zoning Ordinance for Price County, Wisconsin," and hereinafter referred to as "this chapter."

The purpose of this chapter is to promote and to protect the public health, morals, safety, and general welfare of the County. It is intended to encourage the use of lands and natural resources in Price County in accordance with their character and adaptability; to promote orderly development; to secure safety to health, life and property; to prevent highways from economic suffocation by encroaching uses; to preserve land values; and to ensure a quality environment for future generations. This chapter is intended to accomplish this purpose by providing for the proper location, construction, and use of buildings and structures and the use of land, shorelands, air and water within the unincorporated areas of Price County.

The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements adopted for the promotion and protection of the public health, morals, safety, or general welfare; whenever the requirements of this chapter are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted regulations or private covenants, the most restrictive, or that imposing the highest standards, shall govern.

If any section, clause, provision, or portion of this chapter is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this chapter shall not be affected thereby. If any application of this chapter to a particular structure, land, or water is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not be applicable to any other structure, land, or water not specifically included in said judgment.

All prior County ordinances, or parts of ordinances, and amendments thereto conflicting with this chapter are hereby repealed and superseded by this chapter, including the Zoning Ordinance for Price County, Wisconsin, adopted December 11, 1934, and the Comprehensive Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, Price County, enacted by the County under § 59.69, Wis. Stats., and adopted by this County Board on August 13, 1970, or amendments thereto, which are hereby repealed and superseded by this chapter.

Following passage and publication by the County Board of Supervisors, this chapter shall be in full force and effect in each town, as provided in Wisconsin Statutes.

Any and all decisions and determinations made under the authority granted by this chapter may be appealed to the Price County Board of Adjustment as per Ch. 59, Wis. Stats., through the office of the County Clerk.