OR 90-492 Adds Sect. 3-5-9, prohibits scavenging AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 90492
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, AMENDINGARTICLE3-5 OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, BY ADDING
SECTION 3-5-9, PROHIBITING SCAVENGING WITHIN TfIE CITY; PROVIDING
FORANEXCEPTION; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE
SUM OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE; PROVIDING
FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
TEXAS:
Section 1. That Article 3-5 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Coppell, Texas, be, and the same is hereby,
amended by adding Sections 3-5-9 and 3-5-10, which
provides as follows:
"Article 3-5 Sanitation Department
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Section 3-5-9 Scavenging Prohibited
It shall be unlawful for any person other than an authorized
employee of the City of Coppell Sanitation Department 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.
Section 3-5-10 Exception
which is acting under a contract, license h r
United States Postal Service to collect, take, remove or carry away
garbage or trash which has been placed for collection at United
States Postal Offices located in the City.
Section II.
That all ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this
ordinance be, and the same is hereby, repealed and all other
ordinances not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance
shall remain in full force and effect.
Section III.
That should any word, section, phrase, paragraph, or part of
this ordinance be held to be void or unconstitutional for any
reason, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of
said ordinance which shall continue in full force and effect the
same as if no portion of said ordinance had been held to be void or
unconstitutional.
Section IV.
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 .ity of Coppell, Texas,
on the J~ day of ~/~,?-~ j. , 1990.
APPROVED:
DULY RECORDED:
CI~Y SECP~RY
APPROVED AS TO FORM: