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Augusta Richmond GA
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ORDINANCE NO.
6773
AN ORDINANCE TO RESCIND THE
DESIGNA TION OF BETHLEHEM AS A
LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.
WHEREAS, on April 5, 1993, the City Council of Augusta approved a
Resolution designating Bethlehem as a local historic district pursuant to Ordinance No.
5648 passed on February 3, 1992, which sets forth the required components of an
Ordinance designating any property or district as historic; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of Augusta consolidated with Richmond County on
January 1, 1996, and a new political subdivision known as Augusta, Georgia, was created
by Act of the Georgia General Assembly (1995 laws, p 3648 as amended by 1996 GA
Laws, P. 360, 1997 GA Laws p 4690, 1997 GA Laws P 4024, and others, Act No. 134
(S.B. 167), governed by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission.
WHEREAS, the Historic Preservation Ordinance, as presently included in the
Augusta-Richmond County Code at 7-4-15 (j), provides a procedure under which the
Augusta-Richmond County Commission may rescind an Ordinance designating an
historic district or an historic property; and
WHEREAS, said procedure including a public hearing as described at 7-4-15 (c),
and a recommendation from the Historic Preservation, has been followed;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE AUGUSTA-RICHMOND
COUNTY COM:M:ISSION, and it is hereby ordained by authority of same as follows:
Section I. The Resolution approved by the City Council of Augusta on April 5,
1993, designating the Bethlehem neighborhood as an historic district, is hereby
rescinded;
Section II. All actions of the Historic Preservation Commission with respect to
the Bethlehem District taken prior to the effective date of this Ordinance are ratified and
confirmed, without regard to any alleged irregularities in the method of designation.
Section III. In the event that any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance shall be declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration
or adjudication shall in no manner affect the other sections, sentences, clauses, or phrases
of this Ordinance, which shall remain in full force and effect, as if the section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not
originally a part thereof.
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Duly adopted by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission this }~t day of
March. .n..' 2005.
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First Reading:
February 15, 2005
Second Reading: March 1. 2005
Published in the Augusta Chronicle March 10, 2005
Published in the Augusta Chronicle March 10, 2005
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