HomeMy WebLinkAbout1078 05-12-1992ORDINANCE NO. 1078
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 347, AS
AMENDED, SAME BEING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS; AMENDING
SECTION 20 -100 "PENALTY FOR VIOLATION" OF SAID
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE TO INCREASE THE
MAXIMUM FINE FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF TO TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000.00) PER DAY; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE;
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS:
I.
That Section 20 -100 "Penalty for violation" of Ordinance No. 347, same being
the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Euless, Texas, as amended, be
hereby amended to hereafter be and read as follows:
SECTION 20 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
20 -100 Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the
provisions of this ordinance or fail to comply therewith or with any
of the requirements thereof, or who shall build or alter any building
or use in violation of any detailed statement or plan submitted and
approved hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
liable to a fine as provided in Section 1 -6 of the Euless Code of
Ordinances, and each day such violation shall be permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense. The owner or owners of any
building or premises, or part thereof, where anything in violation of
this ordinance shall be placed or shall exist, and any architect,
builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in
connection therewith and who may have assisted in the commission
of any such violations shall be guilty of a separate offense and upon
conviction shall be fined as herein provided. The City of Euless,
likewise, shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this
ordinance through civil court action as provided by State Law.
II.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this
ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and
sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
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III.
Saving Clause. That Ordinance No. 347 and the Code of Ordinances, City of
Euless, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as
amended by this ordinance.
IV.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and publication as provided by the Euless City Charter and the laws of
the State of Texas; provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance shall
apply only to offenses committed on or after the effective date of this ordinance.
Offenses committed before the effective date of this ordinance are subject to the
former penalty in effect on the date of commission of such offense.
PRESENTED AND GIVEN FIRST READING at a regular meeting of the Euless
City Council on the 28th day of April 199 2; by a vote of 4
ayes, 0 nays and 0 abstentions.
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING at a regular
meeting of the Euless City Council on the 12th day of "IaY 199 2 ; by
a vote of 7 ayes, 0 nays and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
SusanC, City Secretary
APP OVE S TO FORM:
ob McFa and, City Attorney
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