The adoption of this ordinance shall operate as a repeal of the prior zoning ordinance known as the Spalding County Zoning and Building Regulations, Division II, Part VIII, Chapter l of the Code of Spalding County, Georgia. The adoption of this ordinance shall also operate to repeal any ordinances in conflict with this ordinance.

The repeal provided for in the preceding section of this ordinance shall not affect any offense or act committed or done or any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right established or accruing before the effective date; nor shall it affect any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective date.

It is hereby declared to be the intention of the county that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance hereby adopted are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance hereby adopted shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, this unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance hereby adopted.

The catchlines of the several sections of this ordinance printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the sections and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of the sections nor as any part of the sections, nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any of the sections, including the catchlines, are amended or reenacted.

This ordinance shall be effective January 4, 1994, the date of its adoption.