Whenever the requirements of this Ordinance conflict with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances, the most restrictive, or that imposing higher standards, shall govern.

Each phrase, sentence, paragraph, Section, part or other provision of this Ordinance is severable from all other such phrases, sentences, paragraphs, Sections, parts and provisions. Should any phrase, sentence, paragraph, Section, part or provision of this Ordinance be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, such declaration shall not affect any other portion or provision of this Ordinance.

This Ordinance in part carries forward by its reenactment some of the provisions of prior zoning ordinances of the City of New Hope (and such provisions are contained in this Ordinance), but all provisions that are not carried forward and reenacted herein are hereby repealed. However, all liabilities which have accrued under prior zoning ordinances of the City shall be preserved, and may be enforced. As such, the enactment of this Ordinance shall not affect any action, suit, or proceeding instituted or pending at this time under any prior zoning ordinance of the City. All suits at law or in equity and/or all prosecutions resulting from the violation of any prior zoning ordinance heretofore in effect, which are now pending in any of the courts of the State or of the United States, shall not be abated or abandoned by reason of the adoption of this Ordinance but shall be prosecuted to their finality, the same as if this Ordinance has not been adopted; and any and all violations of the prior zoning ordinances, prosecutions for which have not yet been instituted, may be hereafter filed and prosecuted; and nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as to abandon, abate, or dismiss any litigation or prosecution now pending, and/or which may heretofore have been instituted or prosecuted.

If conduct constituting a violation of this Ordinance also constitutes an offense under another law, the person may be prosecuted under all applicable laws.

This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and publication as required by law.

Should any section or provision of this Ordinance be declared invalid by any court or jurisdiction such declaration shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole or any part thereof which is specifically declared to be invalid.

This Ordinance shall be in full force after its passage by the City Council of the City of New Hope, State of Alabama, this the 9 ^th day of August, 2021.