OR 99-899 Adopts Sept.1999 Supplement to 1996 Edition of Code of Ordinances
ORDINANCE NO. 99899
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, ADOPTING THE
SEPTEMBER, 1999 SUPPLEMENT TO THE 1996 EDITION OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR THE PRINTING THEREOF, AUTHENTICATION BY
THE MAYOR AND ATTESTATION BY THE CITY SECRETARY; PROVIDING
EXCEPTIONS TO REPEAL; PROVIDING PENALTIES; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WitF~REAS, the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, adopted a new Code of
Ordinances for the City of Coppell by Ordinance No. 96-759 on June 25, 1996; and
WHEREAS, said Code of Ordinances included Ordinances No. 1 through 97811; and
WHE~REAS, the City Council has enacted additional ordinances amending the Code of
Ordinances through and including Ordinance No. 97878 on June 8, 1999; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to supplement the Code of Ordinances to include those
amendments within the body of the Code as provided by Ordinance No. 96-759;
NOW, T!tE~REFORE, BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF ~ CITY OF
COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the September, 1999 Supplement to the 1996 Edition of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Coppell, heretofore enacted by Ordinance No. 96-759 be, and the same is
hereby, adopted and shall hereafter constitute a Supplement to the Code of Ordinances.
SECTION 2. That copies of the September, 1999 Supplement, duly authenticated and
approved by attachment to a certified copy of this Ordinance, under facsimile signature of the Mayor
and attested by the City Secretary, shall be printed and distributed to all holders of the Code of
Ordinances in accordance with the current list kept for that purpose by the City Secretary.
SECTION 3. That such Code as supplemented shall be admitted in evidence without further
proof, and the City Secretary shall record this Supplement to such Code in the ordinance records of the
City, and thereaeter such Code, as amended and supplemented, shall serve as a record of the ordinances
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so codified, and it shall not be necessary in establishing the content of any particular ordinance so
codi~ed to go beyond said record.
SECTION 4. That all provisions of such Code, as amended and supplemented hereby, shall
be in full force and effect from and after the date of this ordinance, and all ordinances of a general and
permanent nature of the City of Coppell, through and including Ordinance No. 99878, enacted on final
passage on or before June 8, 1999, and not included in such code or recognized and in force by
reference therein, are hereby repealed from and after June 8, 1999, except as hereinafter provided. No
resolution of the City Council not specifically mentioned herein is hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. That the repeal provided for in Section 4 above shall not affect the following:
A. Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty of forfeiture incurred or any
contract or right established or accruing before the effective date of such Supplement;
B. Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment of money for the City, or
authorizing the issuance of any bond of the City or any evidence of the City's
indebtedness;
C. Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
D. Any right or franchise granted by the City;
E. Any ordinance dedicating naming establishing locating relocaiing opening paving
widening or vacating any street or public way in the City, including any ordinance
adopting a master thoroughfare plan;
F. Any ordinance relating to municipal street maintenance agreements with the State of
Texas or any other political subdivision;
G. Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for streets in the City;
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H. Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing for the levy of taxes or for an
annual budget;
I. Any ordinance relating to local improvements and assessments therefor;
J. Any ordinance annexing territory to the City or discontinuing territory as a part of the
City;
K. Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdMsion in the City;
L. Any ordinance prescribing the rates to be charged by public utilities or public service
corporations;
M. Any ordinance amending the Zoning Map, Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, or
rezoning specific property; or
N. Any ordinance enacted after June 8, 1999.
SECTION 6. It is the intention of the City Council to make this Supplement and the
amendments incorporated within it part of the Code of Ordinances when printed or reprinted in page
form, distributed to and incorporated within the original Code of Ordinance books distributed by the
City Secretary. A copy of such Code as supplemented hereby shall be available for all persons desiring
to examine the same in the o~ce of the City Secretary during regular business hours. Ordinances
passed subsequent to the enactment of this Supplement shall be added to the body of the Code of
Ordinances and incorporated within it by reference so that reference to the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Coppell shall be understood and intended to include such additions and amendments.
SECTION 7. Whenever in the Code of ordinances an act is prohibited or is made or declared
to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code the doing of any act is
required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, the violation of such provision of the
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Code by any person, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor and, upon conviction in
the Municipal Court of the City of Coppell, such person, firm or corporation shall be punished by a
penalty of 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, including traffic offenses, in
which case the penalty shall be that fixed by state law, and for any offense which is a violation of any
provision that governs fire safety, zoning public health and sanitation or dumping refuse as that term is
defined by Chapter 365 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, as mended, known as the Texas Litter
Abatement Act, 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 8. This ordinance shall take effect immediately 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 Z (O '~day of
t/~P,~ ], ~ Ad , 1999.
ATTEST:
Y
(REH/cdb 10/14/99) (28965)
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CERTIHCATE
STATE OF TEXAS §
COUNTY OF DALLAS §
This September, 1999 Supplement to the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell, adopted
and enacted on the ~Zfa ~ day of October, 1999, as "September, 1999 Supplement to the 1996
Code of Ordinances, City of Coppell, Texas," by ordinance of the City Council, and effective the same
date, is hereby duly authenticated and approved.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name as Mayor of the City of
Coppell, attested by the City Secretary, with the seal of the City affixed hereto, this Z t] ,t~ day of
~~, 1999.
ATTEST:
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