OR 2008-1208 Appointing a Municipal Court Judge and Alternate Judges
ORDINANCE NO. 2008-1208
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
APPOINTING A PRESIDING MUNICIPAL JUDGE AND ALTERNATE
MUNICIPAL JUDGES OF THE COPPELL MUNICIPAL COURT OF
RECORD NO. 1 OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, State law requires a municipality to enact ordinances for
the appointment of judges and alternate judges; and
WHEREAS, the term of the current Municipal Judge and Alternate
Judges have expired; and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to reappoint the current Municipal
Judge and Alternate Municipal Judges.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That in accordance with the provisions of the City
Charter and State law, the City Council hereby appoints Hon. Marian
Moseley to serve as the Municipal Judge of the Coppell Municipal Court No.
1, and shall act as the presiding judge of said Court, and, the City Council
hereby appoints Hon. Kim Nesbitt and Hon. Terry Landwehr and shall each
serve as Alternate Municipal Judges. The Municipal Judge and Alternate
Municipal Judges appointed herein shall each have and possess the
authority, powers, rights, duties, and jurisdiction granted to and imposed on
municipal judges of the Courts of Record of the State of Texas by the
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provisions of State law, City Charter and the ordinances of the City of
Coppell.
SECTION 2. That the Municipal Judge and the Alternate Municipal
Judges appointed hereunder shall each serve a term of office of two (2) years
commencing from the effective date hereof, unless sooner terminated
according to the provisions of law.
SECTION 3. That the City Manager shall determine the appropriate
compensation and negotiate with the foregoing persons such contracts and
agreements as may be deemed necessary and appropriate and shall execute
such contracts as the act and deed of the City.
SECTION 4. That should any word, phrase, paragraph, section or
phrase of this ordinance or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, be
held to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, the same shall not affect the
validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any part or provision thereof other
than the part so decided to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, and shall
not affect the validity of the Code of Ordinances as a whole.
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SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall take effect immediately from
and after its passage and the publication, as the law and charter in such
cases provide.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of thE~ City of Coppell, Texas, this
the 23rd day of September, 2008.
DOUGLAS Df~. STOKER, MAYOR
ATTEST
LIB Y BAL ITY SECRETARY
APPROVES AS TO FORM
ROBERT E. HACyL~,, CITY ATTORNEY
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