OR 341 Plats & subdivisions of land within the corporate limits SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 341
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, PRESCRIBING RULES
AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING PLATS AND SUBDIVISIONS OF LAND WITHIN THE
CORPORATE LIMITS AND EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF
COPPELL, TEXAS, CONTAINING CERTAIN DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR A
PRELIMINARY PLAT; PROVIDING FOR A FINAL PLAT AND PROVIDING FOR FINAL
APPROVAL OF SUBDIVISIONS AND SUBDIVISION PLATS; PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS
FOR FILING PLATS, SUBDIVISION CONSTRUCTION, ACCEPTANCE OF SUBDIVISIONS
AND ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS; PRESCRIBING FEES TO BE CHARGED;
ESTABLISHING JURISDICTION WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY AND
WITHIN THE EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF COPPELL;
REPEALING ANY PART OF ANY ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF
THIS ORDINANCE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00)
FOR EACH OFFENSE AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, by Article 974a, Texas Civil Statutes, the laws of the State of Texas
provide that every owner of any tract of land situated within the corporate limits who
may divide the same in two or more parts for the purpose of laying out any subdivision
of any tract of land or any addition to any town or city, or for laying out suburban lots
or building lots, or any lots, and streets, alleys or parks or other portions intended for
public use, or the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent
thereto, shall cause a plat to be made thereof which shall accurately describe all of
said subdivision or addition by metes and bounds and locate the same with respect to
an original corner of the original survey of which it is a part, giving the dimensions
thereof of said subdivision or addition, and the dimensions of all streets, alleys, squares,
parks or other portions of same intended to be dedicated to public use, or for the use
of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto; and
WIlERiVAl, by Article 970a, Texas Civil Statutes, said law of the State of Texas
provides that the governing body of any city may extend, by ordinance, to all of the
area under its extraterritorial jurisdiction the application of the city's ordinance
establishing rules and regulations governing plats and the subdivision of land; and
W~tEREAS, the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, being so empowered
by law, does hereby promulgate and establish such a plan for the City of Coppell,
Texas, and this ordinance shall hereinafter be known as the Subdivision Ordinance of
the City of Coppell, Texas,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. ADOPTION OF SUBDIVISION REGUI~ATIONS
The term sul~livision means the division of any tract of land situated within the
corporate limits of the City or within the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction, into two
or more parts for the purpose of laying out any subdivision of any tract of land or any
addition to the City of Coppell, Texas, or for laying out suburban lots or building lots,
or any lots, and streets, alleys or parks or other portions intended for public use, or
the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto for the
purpose, whether immediate or future, of creating building sites. Subdivision includes
resubdivision.
The rules and regulation attached hereto, including the attached Appendix A,
are hereby adopted as the subdivision regulations of the City of Coppell and are made
a part hereof for all purposes.
No person shall create a subdivision of land, as hereinabove defined, within the
corporate limits of the City or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City,
without complying with the provisions of these regulations. All plats and subdivisions
of any such land shall conform to the rules and regulations herein adopted.
SECTION 2. REPEALING CLAUSE
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, inconsistent or in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. The Subdivision Ordinance of the City
in effect as of the date of the passage of this ordinance, Ordinance No. 312, is hereby
specifically repealed.
However, the repeal of existing ordinances by this ordinance shall not affect or
prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed
prior to the effective date of this ordinance in violation of any ordinance hereby
repealed; and prosecution for such offenses may be instituted and causes presently
pending proceeded with in all respects as if such prior ordinance or ordinances had not
been repealed.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
If any article, paragraph or subdivision, clause or provision of this ordinance
shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, 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 invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. PENALTY CLAUSE
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a
penalty of fine not to exceed the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each offense,
and each and every day such offense is continued shall constitute a new and separate
offense.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after the publication of
its caption, as the law in such cases provides.
DULY PA,%SED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, this the
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
CITY '
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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