OR 96-771 Amends Daily Water Conservation Plan AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 96771
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
AMENDING CHAPTER 3, SECTION 3-1-12 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COPPELL; REVISING THE
DAILY WATER USE PLAN; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR
A PENALTY FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF FIVE
HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 3, Section 3-1-12 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Coppell, Texas, be, and the same is hereby in part to read as follows:
Sec. 3-1-12 "DAILY WATER USE PLAN
All persons using water for lawn watering, garden watering, or irrigation during
the period of May 15 to September 15 of each year shall do so in the following
manner:
A) All water customers south of Sandy Lake Road must conduct all
lawn watering, garden watering, or irrigation on Sundays,
Tuesdays and Fridays.
B) All water customers north of Sandy Lake Road must conduct lawn
watering, garden watering, or irrigation on Mondays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
C) All irrigation of the center medians of streets or street rights-of-
way and common areas maintained by a homeowner's association,
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that are south of Sandy Lake Road, must be conducted on
Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
D) All irrigation of the center median of streets or street rights-of-way
and common areas maintained by a homeowner's association, that
are north of Sandy Lake Road must be conducted on Mondays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
E)No watering will be allowed on Wednesdays.
F) Nursery (garden and landscape) businesses are not restricted when
watering business inventory; however, they must comply with
garden watering or irrigation for the landscaping associated with
the building.
G) Variances may be granted to persons establishing new lawns or
landscaping. All variances must be submitted in writing. Based
on the water situation at the time of request for a variance, the
City Engineer may reject a variance request until such time as the
City's water supply can sustain the additional water usage. A
variance may be revoked by the City Engineer if the terms of the
agreement are violated.
H) Water customers tied to the Coppell water supply not within the
City limits shall conform to the same watering requirements of this
ordinance."
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with or in
conflict with the provision of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 3. If any article, paragraph, or subdivision, clause, or provision of
this ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, it shall not effect the
validity of this ordinance as a whole or any pan or provision thereof, other than the pan
so decided to be invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4, Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended herein, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a penalty of fine not
to exceed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each offense, and each and
every day such offense is continued shall constitute a new and separate offense.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after the
publication of its caption, as the law and charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, this the
,.;'.3 day of ~ .~.d, , 1996.
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TOM MORTON, MAYOR
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PT~E~RG. SMITHC~IT'¢ ATTORNEY