CAPITOL HEIGHTS                                   2135

FOR CAUSES OF ACTION NOW EXISTING OR OFFENSES ALREADY
COMMITTED AGAINST ANY LAW OR ORDINANCE REPEALED BY
THIS CHARTER, SHALL BE INSTITUTED, PROCEEDED WITH, AND
PROSECUTED TO FINAL DETERMINATION AND JUDGEMENT AS IF
THIS CHARTER HAD NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE.

87-0. MISDEMEANORS. EVERY ACT OR OMMISSION WHICH, BY
ORDINANCE, IS MADE A MISDEMEANOR UNDER THE AUTHORITY
OF THIS CHARTER, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED SHALL BE
PUNISHABLE UPON CONVICTION BEFORE ANY TRIAL MAGISTRATE
OR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY WITHIN WHICH THE
OFFENSE IS COMMITTED BY A FINE NOT EXCEEDING ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) OR IMPRISONMENT FOR THIRTY
DAYS IN THE COUNTY JAIL, OR BOTH, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE
COURT OR TRIAL MAGISTRATE. THE PARTY AGGRIEVED SHALL
HAVE THE RIGHT TO APPEAL AS IS NOW PROVIDED UNDER THE
GENERAL LAWS OF THE STATE. WHERE THE ACT OR OMMISSION
IS OF A CONTINUING NATURE AND IS PERSISTED IN, A
CONVICTION FOR ONE OFFENSE SHALL NOT BE A BAR TO A
CONVICTION FOR A CONTINUATION OF THE OFFENSE
SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIRST OR ANY SUCCEEDING CONVICTION.

88-0. EFFECT OF CHARTER ON EXISTING ORDINANCES.

88-1. ALL ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, RULES AND
REGULATIONS IN EFFECT IN THE TOWN AT THE TIME THIS
CHARTER BECOMES EFFECTIVE, WHICH ARE NOT IN CONFLICT
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHARTER SHALL REMAIN IN
EFFECT UNTIL CHANGED OR REPEALED ACCORDING TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS CHARTER.

88-2. ALL ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, RULES AND
REGULATIONS IN EFFECT IN THE TOWN AT THE TIME THIS
CHARTER BECOMES EFFECTIVE WHICH ARE IN CONFLICT WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHARTER BE AND THE SAME HEREBY
ARE REPEALED TO THE EXTENT OF SUCH CONFLICT.

89-0. SEPARABILITY. IF ANY SECTION, OR PART OF SECTION OF
THIS CHARTER SHALL BE HELD INVALID BY A COURT OF
COMPETENT JURISDICTION, SUCH HOLDING SHALL NOT AFFECT
THE REMAINDER OF THIS CHARTER NOR THE CONTEXT IN WHICH
SUCH SECTION OR PART OF SECTION SO HELD INVALID SHALL
APPEAR, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT AN ENTIRE SECTION OR
PART OF SECTION MAY BE INSEPARABLY CONNECTED IN
MEANING AND EFFECT WITH THE SECTION OR PART OF SECTION
TO WHICH SUCH HOLDING SHALL DIRECTLY APPLY.

REDEVELOPMENT - URBAN RENEWAL ACT

(AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 903 OF THE LAWS OF MARYLAND
1965, AS ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND)

90-0 REDEVELOPMENT - URBAN RENEWAL.