Ord 2282 11/21/1966 ORDINANCE NO. ,,,,,„2,R42,2_
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AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW
li CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF WICHITA
FALLS, TEXAS; ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PRO-
VIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES
NOT INCLUDED THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN
EXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING FOR THE
11 EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A
PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATIONS THEREOF;
ji PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING
j� SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDI-
NANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
j BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, consisting of Chapters
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i 1 to 32, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as the "Code of
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j' Ordinances, City of Wichita Falls, Texas, " and shall be treated and
H considered as a new and original comprehensive ordinance which shall
supersede all other general and permanent ordinances, passed by the
1` Board of Aldermen on or before August 9, 1965, to the extent provided in
jSection 2 hereof.
Section 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in full
fo; ce and effect from and after the 20th day of February
1 7, and all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City
H enacted on final passage on or before August 9, 1965, and not included in
such Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are
ii hereby repealed from and after the 20th day of February
1967, except as hereinafter provided.
Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof
H shall not affect any of the following:
(1) Any offense or act committed or done or
any penalty or forfeiture incurred or any contract or
right established or accruing before the effective date of
this ordinance;
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(2) Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the
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payment of money for the City, or authorizing the issuance
of any bonds of the City, or any evidence of the City's
indebtedness;
(3) Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
(4) Any right or franchise granted by the City;
(5) Any ordinance setting taxicab and bus passenger
li fares within the City;
1 (6) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing,
it locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating,
etc. , any street or public way in the City;
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(7) Any ordinance relating to municipal street
maintenance agreements with the State of Texas;
(8) Any ordinance establishing or prescribing
grades for streets in the City; •
(9) Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance
providing for the levy of taxes or for an annual budget;
(10) Any ordinance relating to local improvements
and assessments therefor;
(11) Any ordinance annexing territory to the
City or discontinuing territory as a part of the City;
(12) Ordinances prescribing traffic regulations
for specific streets, such as ordinance designating
one-way streets, no parking areas, truck routes, stop
intersections, intersections where traffic is to be
• controlled by signals, etc. ;
(13) Any ordinance approving plats of subdivisions
or additions to the City, prescribing restrictions or regu-
lations for the sarn. , or otherwise relating to specific
subdivision or .:.on;
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(14) Ordinance No. 1444, adopted by the
Board of Aldermen on October 30th, 1947 , which
levied against each person, firm or corporation
engaged in the taxicab business, a street rental
charge of 2% of the gross receipts.
(15) Any ordinance enacted after August 9, 1965.
The repeal provided for in Section 2 hereof shall not be
construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has
been repealed by a subsequent ordinance which is repealed by
this ordinance.
Section 4. That whenever in such Code an act is pro-
hibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense
or misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code the doing of any
act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to
be unlawful and no specific penalty is provided therefor,
the violation of any such provision of such Code shall be
punis :..d by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200 .00) ,
as provided in Section 1-5 of this Code.
Section 5. That any and all additions and amendments
to such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the
intention of the Board of Aldermen to make the same a part
of such Code shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code
so that reference to the "Code of Ordinances, City of Wichita
Falls, Texas" shall be understood and intended to include
such additions and amendments.
Section 6. That in case of the amendment of any section
of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general
penalty as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance and Section
1-5 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or,
in case. such amendment contains provisions for which a pen-
alty, ,ther than the aforemen _ior.ed general penalty, is pro-
vided Ln another section in the same chapter, the penalty so
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provided in such other section shall be held to relate to the section so
! amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
Section 7. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in
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II the office of the City Secretary, preserved in looseleaf form or in such
other form as the City Secretary may consider most expedient. It shall
be the express duty of the City Secretary, or someone authorized by him,
to insert in their designated places all amendments or ordinances which
Ij indicate the intention of the Board of Aldermen to make the same a part
of such Code when the same have been printed or reprinted in page
1- -m, and to extract from such Code all provisions which may be from
le to time repealed by the Board of Aldermen. This copy of such Code
shall be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.
Section 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to change
H or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of such Code, or
II to insert or delete pages, or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with
such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City
of Wichita Falls to be misrepresented thereby. Any person violating this
section shall be punished as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance.
Section 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective on the
2 t day of February , 1967.
PASSED AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of the Board of
A dermen of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, on this the 21st
clay of November , 1966, with all members presenting voting "aye"
for the passage of same. /
ATTEST: "e `'C%��/ l/
Mayor
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City =11,03£1X Clerk
CERTIFICATE
THE STATE OF TEXAS §
COUNTY OF WICHITA §
This Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances of
the City of Wichita Falls, adopted and enacted on the
21st day of November, 1966, as the "Code of Ordinances,
City of Wichita Falls , Texas, " by ordinance of the Board
of Aldermen, effective the 20th day of February, 1967,
and after the adoption and publication of the adopting
ordinance, as required by law, is hereby duly authenticated
and approved.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed
my name as Mayor of the City of Wichita Falls, attested by
the City Clerk, with the seal of the City affixed hereto,
this 28th day of November, 1966.
M A Y O R
A T T E S T:
City Clerk
Affidavit of Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WICHITA
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On this . 23rd day of December
Oi oltuAMCe ;:No..3282
AN DRDM1ANCE ADORTING-AND EN-
ACTING A NEW CODE OF A FA LLS,NC-I A.D. .
ES OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FA 1966 , personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority
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TEXAS; ESTABLISHING THE SAME;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF
CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUD- Katherine Parrish , bookkeeper
ED THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN
IEXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING
THE EFFECTIVE PENALTY DATE FORTHE U for the Times Publishing Company of Wichita Falls, publishers of the
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SUCH CODE;MANNER
ND PROVIDING WHEN
THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME Wichita Falls Times, a n e w s p ape r published in Wichita Falls in
EFFECTIVE. County,IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD Wichita County, Texas, and upon being duly sworn by me, on oath states
OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
Section 1. That the TC de of Ordinances, copy of advertising
that the attached advertisement is a true and correct co
I consisting of Chapters 1 to 32, each in-
Ielusive, is hereby adopted and enacted as 1 1 ( One
the "Code of Ordinances, City of Wichita
Falls, Texas," and shall be treated and I published in , issues thereof on the! following
considered as a new and original com-
prehensive ordinance which shall super- dates
,sede all other general and permanent or-;
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dinances, passed by the Board of Alder- December 2$ 1966
!men on or before August 9, 1965, to the
1 extent provided in Section 2 hereof.
'Section 2. That all
Code shall be in full provisions effect;
from and after the 20th day of Febru- RYA/ /�,�,4, -,
ary, 1967,and all ordinances of a general j •
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•and permanent nature of the City en-1
Bookkeeper far Times Publishing Company
acted on final passage on or before Au-
gust 9, 1965, and not Included in such of Wichita Falls
Code or recognized and continued in force
1 by reference therein are hereby repealed
;from and after the 20th day of February,
1967, except as hereinafter provided. Subscribed and sworn to before me this the day and year first above
Section cSecti n 2 That
hereof shrepeal
ll snoprovided affect any
of the following: L) written.
(1) Any offense or act Committed or i F-?
done or,any penalty or forfeiture in- ' (`•,
curred or any contract or right estab- ; � 1
lished or accruing before the effective I .:�-r✓d --�``f °
date of thls ordinance; ""
(2) Any ordinance promising or guaran- 4/
teeing the payment of money for the NM
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City, or authorizing the Issuance of any 1 O$II P. gat�ls'��r NOW rrpap
bonds of the City, or any evidence of' �1..,..�.
the City's indebtedness;
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(3) Any contract or obligation assumed
by the City;
(4) Any right or franchise granted by,
the City;
(5)Any ordinance setting taxicab and bus.
Passenger fares within the City; 'The repeal provided for In Section 2 Section 7. That a copy of such Code
(6) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, ,hereof shall not be construed to revive shall be kept on file in the office of the
establishing, locating, relocating, opening, -
paving, widening, any ordinance or part thereof that has �city Secretary, preserved In looseleaf
9, vacating, etc., any been repealed by a subsequent ordinancel form or in such other form as the City
street or public way in the City; I which is repealed by this ordinance. Secretary may consider most expedient.
(7) Any ordinance relating to municipal 1 Section 4. That whenever in such Code It shall be the express duty of the City
street maintenance agreements With the � ;an act is prohibited or Is made or de-
IState of Texas; Secretary, or someone authorized by him,
(8') Any ordinance establishing or dared to be unlawful or an offense or to insert in their designated places all
scribing grades for streets In the City;o- the doing nof any act is erequiredcorCthe amendments or ordinances which lder-
(9) Any appropriation ordinance or ordt- j failure to do any act is declared to be; cote the Intention of the Board of Alder-
men providing for the levy of taxes or unlawful and no specific penalty is men to make the same a part of such
for an annual budget; Y pro- Code when the same have been printed
(10) Any ordinance relating to local Im-' provision of such Code l shall be any I or reprinted in page form, isionstWh which
1 provements and assessments therefor; by '.Tract from such Code all
(11) Any ordinance annexing territory to .dollars f(S200.00),easeprovi two hundred
the Board of time
Aldermen. This by
the City or discontinuing territory as a 1-5 of this Code. provided in Section copy o-
part of the City; such Code shall be available for all per-
(12) Ordinances prescribing traffic regu-1 and tioamendments alto such all Cde, When sons desiring to examine the same.
lotion for specific streets, such as ordl- passed in such form as to Indicate the Section 8. That it shall or amendaby add;
nance designating one-way streets, no intention of the Board of Aldermen to 'any person le to change
parking areas, truck.routes, stop inter- lions or deletions, any part or by
sections, Intersections where traffic is to make the same a part of such Code
of such Code, or to insert or delete pag-
be controlled by signals, etc.; shall be deemed reference be incorporated In e es, or portions thereof, or to alter or
(13) Any ordinance approving such Code so that reference to the"Code i�tamper with such Code in any manner
subdivisions or additions ordinance a to the City,plats of Ordinances, City of Wichita Falls, [whatsoever which will cause the law of
Texas" shall be understood and intended
;1 the City of Wichita Falls to be misrep-
scribing restrictions or regulations for to include such additions and amend- resented thereby. Any same,or otherwise relating to specif- Y• Y person violating
is subdivision or addition; ments.
this section shall be punished as provided
(14) Ordinance No. 1444, adopted by the; Section b. That section case of such Code afar I Secs Section 9. All ordinances norca
ment of any parts of he or-
Board of Aldermen on October 30th,1947, I which a penalty is not provided, the gen• dinances in conflict herewith are, to the
which levied against each person,firm or j
eral.penalty as provided in Section 4 of extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
corporation engaged in the taxicab bust- this- ordinance and Section 1-5 of such Section 10. This ordinance shall become
ness, a street rental charge of 2 per Code shall apply to the section as amend- effective on the 20th day of February,
cent of the gross receipts. ed; or, in case such an amendment con- 1967.
(15) Any ordinance enacted after August tains provisions for which a PASSED AND APPROVED at a regular
9, 1965, other than the aforementioned penalty,general
The repeal provided for In 5 penalty, is provided in another section in City Tlof Wichita Falls, Texas, no this the
hereof shall not be construed to trevive the same chapter, the penal so
any ordinance-or fY Provid- 1 21st' day of November, 1966, with all
part thereof that has ed in such other section shall be held to members presenting voting "aye" for the
been relate to the section so amended, unless
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which is repealed by this ordinance. such penalty is specifically repealed Rend assage er. of Mayor salma.s—ATTEST:Wilma J. s—R.ThomasC,
Section 4. That whenever in such Code therein.
an act Is '1 City Clerk. I
prohibited or Is made or de ,
Glared to be unlawful or an offense or
1 misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code
the doing of any act Is required or the
failure to do any act is declared to be;
unlawful and no specific penalty i‘ ,,.,,,