OR 91-517 Rate paid to Waterworks & Sanitarty Sewer System AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 91517
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, AMENDING CHAPTER
5 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, BY
ADDING SECTION 5-1-4, PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF ANADDITIONAL
COURT COST OF FIVE DOLLARS ($5.00) UPON CONVICTION OF A VEHICLE
PARKING VIOLATION UNDER THE CITY ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A REPEALING
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING ANEFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Coppell, Texas has adopted an ordinance
regulating the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles as
allowed by Subsection (a), Section 27, Uniform Act Regulating
Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
and
WHEREAS, Article 6701d-26 has been amended to allow for the
collection of additional court costs for the benefit of the
children of the State of Texas;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Amending Article 5-1 of Chapter 5 of the City
Code of Ordinances by adding a Section 5-1-4. Chapter 5 of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell is hereby amended by
adding Section 5-1-4 to read as follows:
"Section 5-1-4. Additional Court Costs.
The Municipal Court of the City of Coppell shall assess an
additional court cost of Five Dollars ($5.00) on every person
convicted of a vehicle parking violation of any City ordinance
regulating stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles in the
City of Coppell."
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Should any section or part of any section,
paragraph or clause of this ordinance be declared invalid or
unconstitutional for any reason, such declaration shall not be held
to invalidate or impair the validity, force or effect of any other
section or sections, part of sections, paragraphs or clause of this
ordinance.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect immediately
from and after its passage as the law in such cases provides.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas,
this the 13th day of August, 1991.
APPROVED
Mark Wolfe
MAYOR
ATTEST:
Dorothy Timmons
CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Lawrence W. Jackson
CITY ATTORNEY