OR 91-500-A-282 Adding Mesquite trees not requiring protection & replacement AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 91500A282
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
AMENDING THE CITY OF COPPELL COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE BY AMENDING SECTION 34, SUBSECTION 34-2-7(B) BY
ADDING MESQUITE TREES OF LESS THAN TEN CALIPER INCHES
(10") TO THE LIST OF TREES WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE
PROTECTION AND REPLACEMENT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 34, Subsection 34-2-7(B) of the Comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance be amended by incorporating Mesquite Trees (Common Name) or Prosopis glandulosa
(Botanical Name), of less than ten caliper inches (10"), to the list of trees not required to be
protected or replaced.
SECTION 2. That should any word, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or
section of this ordinance, or of the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, be adjudged or held to
be void or unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of said
ordinance or the Code of Ordinances, as amended hereby, which shall remain in full force and
effect.
SECTION 3. 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in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and all other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.
SECTION 4. An offense committed before the effective date of this ordinance is govemed
by the 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 PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, the 9th day of
January 2001.
~2;?FI ~, MAYOR
LIBBY B(9[L, ~TTi/'SECRETARY
(REH/cdb 12/01/00)
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