OR 2009-1235 ScavengingAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
AMENDING CHAPTER 3 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY
AMENDING ARTICLE 5 -9, SCAVENGING PROHIBITED; TO
DELETE ALL REFERENCES TO AN AUTHORIZED EMPLOYEE
AND REPLACE WITH CITY MANAGER AND HIS DESIGNEE
AND TO DELETE ALL REFERENCES TO THE SANITATION
DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF A FINE
NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
($500.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, after review and consideration, the City Council hereby finds that
Section 3 -5 -9 should be amended as provided herein.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
COPPELL, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 3, City Departments, Article 5 -9 of the Code of
Ordinances is hereby amended by amending Article 5 -9, Scavenging prohibited, which
shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE 3 -5. SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING PROGRAM
Sec. 3 -5 -9 Scavenging Prohibited.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL
ORDINANCE NO. 2009 -1235
It shall be unlawful for any person other than City Manager of the
City of Coppell, or his designee, or a commercial trash hauler acting under
a franchise from the City of Coppell for public collection and disposal, to
collect, take, remove, tamper with, interfere with scavenge from carry
away or otherwise disturb garbage or trash which has been placed for
collection at any authorized recycling site operated by the city or in any
container on public or private property, as provided by this article.
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SECTION 2. The meeting in which this Ordinance was passed was open to the
public as required by law.
SECTION 3. That all provisions of the 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in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby, repealed,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 of the Ordinances of the City not in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 4. That should any word, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause,
phrase or section of this ordinance, or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, be
adjudged or held to be void or unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of said ordinance or the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, which
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall take effect 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
clay of 2009.
APPROVED:
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JAY T P�S, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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