OR 2004-1068 Allowable fencing materialsAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 2004-1068
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY AMENDING
CHAPTER 9, ARTICLE 9-2 FENCE REGULATIONS AMENDING
THERETO SECTION 9-2.7 MATERIALS TO PROVIDE FOR
ALLOWABLE FENCING MATERIALS AND TO PROHIBT
CERTAIN FENCING MATERIALS IN RESIDENTIALLY ZONED
DISTRICTS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell, Texas be
amended by amending Chapter 9, Article 9-2, Section 9-2.7 Materials, to read as follows:
"Article 9-2. FENCE REGULATIONS
Sec. 9-2.7 Materials.
B. Permitted materials'. Materials permitted for fences shall be of wood,
masonry, wrought-iron, or decorative metal. Colors for wood fences shall
be limited to earth-tones only; wrought-iron and decorative metal fences
may be painted black, off-white or earth-tone colors only; masonry fences
may not be painted.
C. Prohibited materials'. Materials prohibited in fences are barbed wire,
razor ribbon, sheet metal, chain-link, vinyl or polyvinyl, or any other
similar material. Exception: Barbed wire and/or chain-link is permitted
for fencing agriculture- or industrial-zoned property."
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence phrase or word in
this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any
court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas hereby
declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite such invalidity.
Section 3. That the repeal of any ordinance or portion thereof by the preceding
sections shall not affect or impair any act done or right vested or accrued or any
proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced any cause before such repeal shall
take effect; but every such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, suit or
prosecution had or commenced shall remain in full force and effect to all intents or
purposes as if such ordinance or part thereof so repealed shall remain in force.
Section 4. That any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance or the Code of Ordinances as amended hereby, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction in the Municipal Court of the City of Coppell, Texas,
shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for
each offense, except where a different penalty has been established by State Law for such
offense, the penalty shall be that fixed by State Law, and for any offense which is a
violation of any provision of law that governs fire safety, zoning or public health and
sanitation, including dumping of refuse, the penalty shall be a fine not to exceed the sum
of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense; and each and every day such
offense is continued shall constitute a new and separate offense.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall become effective immediately from and after
its passage and the publication of the caption, as the law and charter in such cases
provide.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of Coppell, Texas, this
2004.
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DO~G~gS N. STO'VER, MAYOR
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