OR 94-678 Operation & parking of trucks off designated truck routes AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 94678
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
AMENDING CHAPTER 8 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF COPPELL, BY AMENDING SECTION 8-4-3B REGULATING
PARKING OFF THE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTES; PROVIDING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF
FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
($200.00); AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDMNED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell, Texas, be, and the
same is hereby, amended, in part, by amending Section 8-4-3B to read as follows:
"SEC. 8-4-3 TRUCKS PROHIBITED OFF TRUCK ROUTE; EXEMFHONS
A. No person may operate, leave, park, stand or permit to be
operated or parked any commercial motor vehicle, track tractor,
semi-trailer, pole trailer, or trailer upon any street within the
City except those streets designated as truck routes below:
STREET EXTENT
Beltline Road all portions within the City limits
Demon Tap Road all portions within the City limits.
B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply:
1. to emergency vehicles operating in response to
emergency call;
2. to vehicles operated by a public utility while in an
assigned area for the purpose of inspecting facilities or
providing maintenance services to such facilities;
3. to vehicles operated for public service i.e. garbage
pickup, street repair and water service;
4. to a vehicle traveling to and from a location, which is
not on a designated truck route, for the purpose of
providing repair or maintenance senrice, loading or
unloading goods, wares, or merchandise, provided such
vehicle is operated over the shortest practical route, and
if the operator of such vehicle has in his or her
immediate possession evidence of the local destination
and point of origin. Any such vehicle shall not be
permitted to proceed from a location off the truck route
to another location without returning to a designated
truck route.
5. to a vehicle parked at a location which is not on a
designated truck route for a period not to exceed four
(4) hours provided such vehicle is engaged in or is
preparing to engage in one of the functions exempted in
subsections 1-4 above."
SECTION 2. That all provisions of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell,
Texas in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby,
repealed, and all other provisions not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall
remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 3. That should any word, phrase, paragraph, section or portion of this
ordinance or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, be held to be void or
unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of said
ordinance or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, which shall remain in full
force and effect.
SECTION 4. An offense committed before the effective date of this ordinance is
governed by the prior law and the provisions of the Code of Ordinances, as amended, in
effect when the offense was committed and the former law is continued in effect for this
purpose.
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SECTION 5. That any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions or
terms of this ordinance or of 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 Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each
offense, and each and every day such offense is continued shall constitute a new and
separate offense.
SECTION 6. That this ordinance shall become effective immediately from and after
its passage as the law and charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, this the ,' f
day of .
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APPROVED:
TOM MORTON, MAYOR
ATFEST:
LI'N4DA GRAU, CITY SECRETLY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
~RR G. SM;I~,(,CITY ATTORNEY
(PGS/jd 12/8/94)
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