OR 2014-1384 Municipal Judges
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 2014-1384
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 terms 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
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.
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 IP-day of
, 2014.
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EN SE BO HUNT, AYOR
ATTEST:
H STEL PET INOS CI SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROB RT E. HAGER, CI 1 ATTORNEY