OR 2021-1567 Increase Board Members
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, AMENDING THE
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ORDINANCESTOAMENDSECTION9-1-
NUMBEROFMEMBERSFROMTHREE(3)TOFIVE(5);PROVIDING
THAT AT LEAST THREE MEMBERS APPROVE OR DENY AN APPEAL;
ANDPROVIDINGFORANALTERNATE;PROVIDINGAREPEALING
CLAUSE;PROVIDINGASEVERABILITYCLAUSE;ANDPROVIDINGAN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.-1Animal Services
amending Section 9-1-by amending subsections A and Bto
the Code of Ordinances be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
GENERAL REGULATIONS
ARTICLE 9-1.ANIMAL SERVICES
Sec. 9-1-1.Definitions
. . . . .
Sec. 9-1-8.Animal appeals and advisory board.
AThere is hereby created the animal appeals and advisory board comprised of the
animal services manager, a veterinarian to be appointed by the city council and
three3)residents of the city,, one of which shall not be an employee of the city
and is a member of an animal welfare organization. The city council may
appoint a resident as an alternate to serve in the absenceof the appointed
resident of the board whom is not animal welfare appointee, unless the alternate
is a member of an animal welfare organization. The denial or revocation of
registration may be appealed by filing with the animal services manager or their
designated representative a written request for hearing within ten days after
notification of the denial or revocation. The filing of a request for an appeal
stays the action until the appeals board makes a final decision, although it does
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not preclude the necessity for the animal to be removed from the city until all
appeals are final. If written request for an appeal is not timely made, the denial
or revocation is final.
B.The appeals board may consider evidence offered by any interested person. The
formal rules of evidence do not apply. The appeals board shall make its decision
on the basis of a preponderance of the evidence presented at the hearing. The
appeals board should conduct a hearing and render a decision within 15 days
after the request for an appeal is filed or as soon thereafter as practicable. The
appeals board may affirm or reverse the denial or revocation based on a simple
majority of at least three members. The decision of the appeals board shall be
sent to the owner of the affected animal. The decision of the appeals board is
final.
SECTION 2.That all provisions of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell, Texas,
in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and all other
provisions not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION3.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 4.An offense committed before the effective date of this ordinance is governed
by prior law and the provisions of the Code of Ordinances, as amended, in effect when the offense
was committed and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
SECTION 5.That this ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage
and the publication of the caption, as the law and charter in such cases provide.
DULY PASSEDby the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, this the _______ day of
___________________, 2021.
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