HomeMy WebLinkAbout546 06-13-1978ORDINANCE 546
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB - SECTION 7 -1300 EN-
TITLED "DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS APPLI-
CABLE TO USE REGULATIONS', CERTAIN SUB- SECTIONS
OF SECTION 9 ENTITLED "SIGN STANDARDS ", AND
SUB - SECTION (66) OF SECTION 11 ENTITLED "GEN-
ERAL DEFINITIONS" OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 347, SAME
BEING THE ZONING CODE OF THE CITY OF EULESS,
TEXAS, BY REVISING AND AMENDING THE "SCHEDULE
OF SIGN STANDARDS" AND CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
APPLICABLE THERETO AND TO PROVIDE A CESSATION
OF PERMITS FOR CERTAIN SIGNS; PROVIDING A SEVER-
ABILITY CLAUSE; AN EFFECTIVE DATE; A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATION THEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS,
TEXAS:
I.
Sub - section 7 -1300, entitled DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
APPLICABLE TO USE REGULATIONS, of Euless Ordinance 347, same
being the Zoning Code of the-city of Euless, Texas, is herewith
amended in the following respects:
Sub - section (43), entitled Name Plate Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(43) Name Plate Sign: Any sign showing only the
name and/or address of the owners or occupant
of the premises on which it is erected or
placed.
Sub - section (44), entitled Real Estate Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(44) Real Estate Sign: Any temporary sign pertain-
ing to the sale or rental of property and
advertizing the property only for a use for
which it is legally zoned.
Sub - section (45), entitled Construction Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(45) Construction Sign: Any temporary sign iden-
tify ni g the owner, architect, contractor, en-
gineer, landscape architect, decorator or mort-
gagee engaged in the design, construction or
improvement of the premises on which the sign
is located.
Sub - section (46), entitled Non - residential Identification
Sign is herewith amended to hereafter read as follows:
(46) Identification Sign: Any sign which issued to
identify shopping centers, industrial sites, re-
tail districts and commercial sites.
Sub - section (47), entitled Institutional Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(47) Institutional Sign: Any sign or bulletin board
used to identify schools, churchs, hospitals and
similar public or quasi - public institutions.
Sub - section (48), entitled Apartment Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(48) Apartment Sign: Any Sign identifying an apart-
ment building or complex of apartment build-
ings.
Sub - section (50), entitled General Business Sign is herewith
amended to hereafter read as follows:
(50) General Business Sign: Any advertising sign
which is used to identify a business, profes-
sion, service, product, or activity conducted,
sold or offered on the premises where such
sign is located.
Sub - section (52), entitled Advertising Sign shall read as
follows:
(52) Advertising Sign: Any sign which promotes
and advertises commodities or services not
limited to being offered on the premises
on which such signs are located.
Sub - section 7 -1300 entitled DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
APPLICABLE TO USE REGULATIONS, of'Eu ess Ordinance Nu. 347, same
being the Zoning Code of the City of Euless, Texas, is herewith
amended by the addition of the following new sub - sections, which
shall hereafter be and read as follows:
Sub - section (99), entitled Development Sign shall read as
follows:
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(99) Develo ment Sign: Any temporary, on -site
promotional sign pertaining to the development
of land or construction of buildings.
Sub- section (100), entitled Ground Sign shall read as
follows:
(100) Ground Sign: Any sign which is erected on
a vertical framework consisting of two (2)
or more uprights supported by the ground.
Sub - section (101), entitled Marque Sign shall read as
follows:
(101) Marque Sign: Any sign erected on a marque
or fixed awning.
Sub - section (102), entitled Parapet Wall Sign shall read
as follows:
(102) Parapet Wall Sign: Any sign erected on the
top surface of a parapet wall.
Sub - section (103), entitled Pole Sign shall read as fol-
lows:
(103) Pole Sign: Any sign supported by a single
free - standing pole, and having no guys or
braces to the ground or to any structure
other than the pole.
Sub - section (104), entitled Projecting Sign shall read as
follows:
(104) Projecting Sign: Any sign which projects
from a building and which has one end attach-
ed to a building or other permanent struc-
ture.
Sub - section (105), entitled Roof Sign shall read as fol-
lows:
(105) Roof Sign: Any,sign erected on a vertical
framework supported by and located immediately
and entirely over the roof of a building.
Sub - section (106), entitled Wall Sign shall read as follows:
(106) Wall Sign: Any sign erected flat against
a wall, support by the wall, and having the
sign face parallel to and not more than
twelve (12) inchs from the walls surface.
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Neon tubing attached directly to a wall
surface shall be considered a "wallsign ".
II.
Sub - section (66) of Section 11 entitled GENERAL DEFINITIONS,
of Euless Ordinance No. 347, same being the Zoning Code of the
City of Euless, Texas, is herewith amended to hereafter be and
read as follows:
(66) Sign: The term "sign" shall mean and include
every sign, name, number, identification, des-
cription, device, display, flag, banner, pennant,
illustration, beacon, light or insignia, and
structure supporting any of the same, affixed
directly or indirectly to or upon any building
or outdoor structure, or erected or maintained
upon a piece of land, which directs attention
to any object, product, service, place, activity,
person, institution, organization or business.
Any interior illuminated or moving sign or light
which is visable from the exterior shall be
deemed to be erected on the exterior of the
building or structure.
III.
Sub - section 9 -200 entitled SCHEDULE OF SIGN STANDARDS of
Section 9 of Euless Ordinance No. 347, same being the Zoning
Code of the City of Euless, Texas, is herewith amended to
hereafter be and read as follows:
9 -200 SCHEDULE OF SIGN STANDARDS
LEGEND
The permissible sign types are defined as follows:
G - Ground Sign
W - Wall Sign
PA - Parapet Wall Sign
P - Pole Sign
PR - Projecting Sign
R - Roof Sign
M - Marque Sign
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Street
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each Street
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Ground Signs
Fronts e
Business
W,PA,
1 Pole or
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Ground for
each Street
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PR,M,R
9 -300 GENERAL PROVISIONS of Section 9 of Euless Ordinance
No. 347 same being the Zoning Code of the City of
Euless, Texas, is herewith amended by the addition
of a new sub - paragraph (9) which shall hereafter be
and read as follows:
(9) A building permit issued for any sign pursuant
to the Building Code of the City of Euless,
Texas, shall automatically terminate and become
void and of no effect upon the cessation, for
a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days,
of the use permitted by such permit or to which
the sign directs attention or in the event such
sign shall fail, for a period of one hundred
and eighty (180) days to direct attention to
an existing object, product, service, place,
activity, person, institution, organization or
business. Upon cessation of the'Building Per -
mit for any sign, such sign shall thereafter be
and constitute a non - permitted structure
under and pursuant to the Building Code of
the City of Euless, Texas, and shall be sub-
ject to abatement and removal pursuant to
the provisions of such Building Code and
the owner thereof or occupant of the pre-
mises upon which such sign shall be situated
shall be subject to fine and /or penalty
as provided pursuant to the provisions of
the Zoning Code of the City of Euless, Texas,
and the Building .Code of the City of Euless,
Texas.
IV.
Severablity 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 unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such 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 unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section.
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VI.
Penalty for Violation. Any person 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 of not
more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) and each day such viola-
tion 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, building, contractor,
agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith and
who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation
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.
VII.
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.
VIII.
Emergency Clause. By the affirmative vote of four or more
of its members, The City Council declares that this is an Ordi-
nance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property,
health, and safety, and is an emergency measure within the mean-
ing of Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter; and the
requirement that it be read at two meetings, as specified in
such Section 11, Is hereby dispensed with.
PRESENTED AND PASSED ON first and final reading.on the th`
day of June, 1978, at a regular meeting of the City Council ofd
the City of Euless, Texas, by a vote of 5 ayes and 0 nays
and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
Harold Samuels, Mayor
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ATTEST:
Della Houy, City Secret
APP- OVED :
M. Robert McFarlan , City Att y
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