Ord 52-2014 11/4/2014 ORDINANCE NO. 52-2014
Ordinance adopting and enacting a new Code for the City of Wichita
Falls, Texas; providing for the repeal of certain ordinances not included
therein; providing a penalty for the violation thereof; providing for the
manner of amending such Code; and providing when such Code and
this Ordinance shall become effective
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS,
TEXAS, THAT:
Section 1. The Code entitled " Code of Ordinances, City of Wichita Falls, Texas,"
published by Municipal Code Corporation, consisting of chapters 1 through 110,
Appendix A. Subdivision and Development Regulations and Appendix B. Zoning, each
inclusive, are hereby adopted.
Section 2. All ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before
August 5, 2014, and not included in the Code or recognized and continued in force by
reference therein, are repealed.
Section 3. 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revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance
that is repealed by this ordinance.
Section 4. Unless another penalty is expressly provided, every person convicted of
a violation of any provision of the Code or any ordinance, rule, order or regulation where
any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a
misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided, the violation of such provision of this
Code or of any ordinance, rule, regulation or order that governs or regulates fire, safety,
zoning or public health or sanitation, including dumping of refuse, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding $2,000.00. The violation of any other provision of this Code or any other
ordinance, rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00,
unless specifically stated otherwise in this Code. If the maximum penalty provided by this
Code for any offense is greater than the maximum penalty provided for the same or a
similar offense under the laws of the state, the maximum penalty for such violation
provided by the state statute shall be the maximum penalty under this Code. Except where
otherwise provided in this Code, each day an offense shall continue shall constitute a
separate offense.
The penalty provided by this section, unless another penalty is expressly provided,
shall apply to the amendment of any Code section, whether or not such penalty is
reenacted in the amendatory ordinance. In addition to the penalty prescribed above, the
city may pursue other remedies such as abatement of nuisances, injunctive relief,
administrative adjudication and revocation of licenses or permits.
Section 5. Additions or amendments to the Code when passed in such form as to
indicate the intention of the city to make the same a part of the Code shall be deemed to
be incorporated in the Code, so that reference to the Code includes the additions and
amendments.
Section 6. Ordinances adopted after August 5, 2014 that amend or refer to
ordinances that have been codified in the Code shall be construed as if they amend or
refer to like provisions of the Code.
Section 7. This ordinance shall become effective December 4, 2014.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 4th day of November, 2014.
MAYOR
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