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OR 256 General Provision - the Code of Ordinance ADOPTION OF CODE AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS ORDINANCE NO. 256 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS ADOPTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COPPELL; PROVIDING FOR THE PRINTING THEREOF, AUTHENTICATION BY THE MAYOR AND ATTESTATION BY THE CITY SECRETARY, THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES, SAVE AND EXCEPT OTHER ORDINANCES OF A PARTICULAR KIND MENTIONED; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Coppell has authority under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas to codify and adopt its ordinances together with appropriate penalties for violation thereof, which said Code when adopted shall have the force and effect of an ordinance regularly enacted with the usual prerequisites of law; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINEl) BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS: SECTION 1 That the following Code consisting of General Provisions followed by Chapters 1 through 17 shall hereafter constitute the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell, Texas. SECTION 2 That the Code shall be arranged and shall consist of one volume containing a Table of Contents, followed by a Section entitled General Provisions which in turn shall be followed by Chapters 1 through 17. Said Code shall also contain a general index. The Code shall be known as the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell. Ten~. That copies of such Code duly authenticated and approved under facsimile signature of the Mayor, Andrew Brown, Jr. and attested by the City Secretary, Dorothy Timmons together with an imprint or facsimile reproduction of the Seal of the City shall be printed under the direction of the governing body. SECTION 3 That said Code shall be admitted in evidence without further proof and the City Secretary shall record said Code as adopted in the ordinance records of the City, and thereafter such records shall serve as a record of the ordinances (j) That nothing herein shall be construed as a repeal or modification of any ordinance levying a special benefit assessment or creating a lien and debt against the owner of any property improved by the opening, widening, extension or paving of any street or public thoroughfare within the City. (k) That nothing herein shall be construed as a repeal of any franchise, license or right granted by the City to any person, firm or corporation which license, grant, power or franchise was legally in force and effect at the date of the effective date of this Code. Every such license, grant, power and franchise shall expire as originally provided by ordinance. (1) That nothing herein shall affect any pending suits of a civil or criminal nature to which the City is now or may hereafter become a party, (m) That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell shall take effect on the 1st day of April 1982. SECTION 5 That all of the provisions of this ordinance shall be printed in the front of the Code. SECTION 6 That whenever in such Code or in any ordinance of the City, or in any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code, ordinance, rule or regulation the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of such Code or any such ordinance, rule or regulation shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00); provided, however, that where the offense is one for which a penalty is fixed by state law, the penalty for such offense shall be the same as fixed by state law. Each day any violation of such Code, ordinance, rule or regulation shall continue, shall constitute a separate offense unless otherwise provided. SECTION 7 That it is the desire of the governing body of the City to keep said Code current and up-to-date by causing any amendments, whether they be additions, deletions or changes, to be published in the form of supplements or reprints of pages. These supplements or reprinted pages when inserted in proper place in their entirety shall constitute the official Code up to the date of the most recently published supplement or reprinted pages. All of the copies of said Code shall be deemed official copies, one of which official copies shall be kept in the Office of the City Secretary and shall be kept complete and up-to-date with all such changes, supplements and reprinted pages. In the event any question is raised as to whether a Code or any part thereof is complete and up-to-date, the copy in the office of the City Secretary shall be final and conclusive. Any ordinance which amends, supplements or repeals any of the provisions of the Code and which is not contained in the supplements or reprints of pages in the so codified and it shall not be necessary in establishing the content of any particular ordinance so codified to go beyond said record. SECTION 4 (a) All ordinances of a general and permanent nature in force and effect when this Code takes effect which are inconsistent herewith or in conflict with this Code are hereby repealed except as herein provided. (b) That all ordinances in effect upon the effective date of this Code not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Code which are omitted from such revision or codification shall not be deemed to have been repealed, but shall be continued in full force and effect unimpaired by this Code. (c) That the repeal of any ordinance or any portion thereof by the preceding sections shall not affect or impair any act done or right vested or accrued or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced in any cause before such repeal shall take effect; but every such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, suit or prosecution had or commenced shall remain in full force and effect to all intents or purposes as if such ordinance or part thereof so repealed had remained in force. No offense committed and no liability, penalty or forfeiture either civil or criminally incurred prior to the time when any such ordinance or part thereof shall be repealed or altered by the Code shall be discharged or affected by such repeal or alteration; but prosecutions and suits for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures shall be instituted and proceeded with in all respects as if such prior ordinance or part thereof had not been repealed or altered. (d) That no general or special ordinance or resolution heretofore enacted validating or legalizing the acts or omissions of any officer or validating any ordinance, act or proceeding whatever shall be affected by the repealing clause of this ordinance, but all validating or legalizing ordinances whatsoever now in force are hereby continued in force. (e) That no ordinance relating to the public debt or the public credit or any annexation or disannexation of territory shall be affected by the repealing clause of this ordinance. (f) That no ordinance relating to a contract to which the City is a party or any contract made for its benefit shall be affected by the repealing clause of this ordinance. (g) That all ordinances and resolutions making specific appropriation of public funds are continued in force. (h) That nothing in the repealing clause of this ordinance shall be construed as releasing any person, firm or corporation from any duty enjoined in the limitation or condition imposed by any ordinance that may be repealed by said repealing clause. (i) That nothing herein shall be construed as a repeal of the Zoning Ordinance of the City, as amended or the Subdivision Ordinance, as amended. Code, and not otherwise repealed, shall nonetheless be deemed in force and effect from the date indicated in same, and upon proof of its existence be admissible in evidence in any of the Courts of this State or the United States, or for any other lawful purposes. SECTION 8 This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained. DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas, this the 23rd day of February, 1982. APPROVED: ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: