OR 2017-1459 Presiding and Alternate Municipal JudgesAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 2017-1459
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. I OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the former Presiding Judge, Hon. Marian Moseley, retired effective
January 31, 2017, and
WHEREAS, the Council previously approved the appointment of Hon. Terry Landwehr as the
new Presiding Municipal Court Judge; and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to appoint Hon. Candace Carlsen as Alternate Municipal
Judge and to affirm the appointment of the Presiding Municipal Court Judge.
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 affirms the appointment of Hon. Terry Landwehr to serve as the Presiding Municipal
Court Judge of the Coppell Municipal Court No. 1 and the City Council hereby appoints Hon. Candace
Carlsen to serve as an Alternate Municipal Judge. The Municipal Judge and Alternate Municipal Judge
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, set to conclude July 31, 2018, unless sooner terminated
according to the provisions of law.
SECTION 3. That the City Manager shall 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 14 131day of
2017.
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HRISTEL PETT OS, CITY S CRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT E. HAGER, TY ATTORNEY