HomeMy WebLinkAbout1425 05-09-2000ORDINANCE NO. 1425
AN ORDINANCE CONTINUING IN EFFECT ORDINANCE
NO. 1144, ADOPTED ON JULY 12,1994, AND CODIFIED AS
SECTION 50 -27, ]ENTITLED `CURFEW HOURS FOR
MINORS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY
OF EULESS, TEXAS; REFLECTING COMPLIANCE WITH
ALL REQUIREMENTS OF STATE LAW; PROVIDING A
SEVE RABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE;
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, after study, heretofore enacted
Euless Ordinance No. 1144 on July 12, 1994, adding to the Euless Code of Ordinances Section 50-
27, imposing curfew hours for minors as defined therein, and providing certain exceptions, rules and
regulations for the enforcement thereof, and
WHEREAS, the Euless City Council enacted Ordinance No. 1229 on May 27, 1997,
reenacting and continuing in effect the provisions of said juvenile curfew ordinance; and
WHEREAS, Section 370.002 of the Texas Local Government Code requires that such an
ordinance be reexamined periodically to determine whether such provisions should be continued in
effect, modified or abolished; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, has conducted a review of its
curfew ordinance's effect on the community and on the problems the ordinance was intended to
remedy; and
WHEREAS, the Euless City Council has conducted a public hearing on the need to continue
in effect the Euless juvenile curfew ordinance; and
WHEREAS, based on its review of the ordinance's effects on the community and on the
problems the ordinance was intended to remedy, and based on input obtained at the public hearing,
the Euless City Council now finds and determines that the current juvenile curfew ordinance
provisions in effect within the City should be continued in effect without modification.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF E1UlLESS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Ordinance No. 1144, adopted on July 12, 1994, and codified as Sec. 50 -27 of the
Euless Code of Ordinances, as amended, and as continued by Ordinance No. 1229, adopted on May
27, 1997, and entitled "Curfew hours for minors" be and the same is hereby continued in effect
within the corporate limits of the City of Euless, Texas.
SECTION 2.
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
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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.
SECTION 3.
Saving Clause_. That Chapter 50 of 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.
SECTION 4.
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.
PRESENTED AND GIVEN FIRST READING and approved at a regular meeting of the
Euless City Council on the 9 t:h day of May , 2000; by a vote of � ayes, o nays
and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
Mary Lib Sa h, Mayor
ATTEST:
san Crini, C, City Secretary
APPROV -14S T FORM:
Bob McFrarland; City Attorney �.
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