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HomeMy WebLinkAbout808 09-11-1984ORDINANCE NO. 808 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE EULESS CODE, SECTION 8 -71, RELATING TO FOOD ESTABLISH- MENTS WITHIN THE CITY OF EULESS; AMENDING CERTAIN FEES RELATED THERETO; PROVIDING A PENALTY; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS: I. The City of Euless Code Section 8 -71, Fees, shall hereafter read as follows: "SECTION 8 -71. Fees. Every restaurant and itinerant restaurant shall pay an annual permit fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per employee with a minimum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per year for an annual permit and a maximum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year for an annual permit. The number of employees shall be determined on the effective date of the permit." II. Severability Clause. 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. III. Penalty for Violation. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the terms and provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00. Each such violation shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder. IV. Emergency Clause. By the affirmative vote of four or more of its members, the City Council declares that this is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, and safety, and is an e mregncy measure within the meaning of Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter, and the requirement that it be read at two meetings, as specified in Section 11, is hereby dispensed with. V. 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 PASSED on first and final reading on the 11th day of September, 1984, at a regular meeting of the Euless City Council, by a vote of 5 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. APPROVED: gw-u 4 xd� Harold D. Samuels, Mayor ATTEST: Kay R� ey,' City Secretary � AP O D WTOOR Ci y Att rn y ORDINANCE NO. 808, PAGE TWO OF TWO