Ord 1008 11/19/1928 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDIN;-ACE PROVIDING FOR THE COi`.1'STRUCTION AND
ENFORCEMENT OF ALL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY ?F WICHITA FALLS,
TEXAS,
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERHEN OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1; GENERAL.- The definitionsand provisions
of this ordinance shall apply to the construction, application
and enforcement of every ordinance of this city, whether
adopted now, heretofore, or hereafter, unless the context clear-
ly indicates otherwise.
SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS. - The word "person" includes
firms, partnerships, associations and corporations. The term
"Public Grounds" includes streets; and the word "streets" in-
cludes alleys, sidewalks and all public ways. The male' bender
shall be deemed to include female and neuter, toe singular
number shall include the plural, and vice versa.
SECTION 3: CLERICAL ERRORS. - Typographical and
clerical errors shall be ignored where the meaning is otherwise
plain.
SECTION 4: LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION. - Ordinances shall be .0
constTA4141HATntly and liberally to male effective the
policy which was apparently intended to be established by the
Board of Aldermen, and to further the good government of the
city and the well-being of its inhabitants.
SECTION 5: DUTIES OF C ' 1, 'd Where any ordinance
of this city provides that a ,cer a: " _u y s.za �_ be performed by a
Commissioner, or that certaijaT I doze by a Commissioner,
v such duties and acts shall be ?done and performed by the City
Manager.
SECTION 6: VIOLATIONS. -- .The doing of any act for-
bidden by any ordinance, or by any order lawfully made under any
ordinance, of the failing to do any act required by any ordi-
nance,or--by any order lawfully made under any ordinance, shall be
a, violation of the ordinance, and a misdemeanor. It shall be
equally a violation and a misdemeanor for any .person to cause
another to violate an ordinance, or for any -;.person to attempt to
violate an ordinance, or to aid, assist, counsel or advise another
to do so.
SECTION 7: PUNISHMEHT FOR HISD NEA OR. - Any misdemeanor
for which a, penalty is not specifically providad shall b e punished
by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than two hundred
dollars.
SECTION S: LICENSES ADD PER"NITS. All licenses and per-
mits shall be issued by the clerk, after payment of the specified
fee and approval by the Boaxd of Aldermen if required by ordinance.
All applications shall be ,.lade out on forms furnished by the clerk
and verified under oath. All licenses and permits may be revoked
by thy Board of Aldermen, and -shall expire on the first of January
following their issuance, unless otherwise specifieally provided.
No deduction in the fee shall be made when the license or permit
is terminated, either by revocation or by expiration, within less
after tts issuance. �ti7� _
than a year �, �� CL,11l.1 ��t .1lilt b s s
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1 p icly displayed in the place of business.
SECTION 9: SEPARABILITY OF PIOVISIONS.- Every
section, provision, or part of every ordinance of the
City of tilichi.ta. Falls is declaxed separable from every other
section, provision, -or part; and if any section, provision
or x)art of any ordinance shall be held invalid, it shall not
affect any other section, provision, or part thereof. .�
PASSED AND APPROVED this �� day of November,
A. D. 1928.
11AYOR.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK.