HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 632-91 04-08-1991 • ORDINANCE NO. 6 3 2
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Q(S) "DURATION OF SALE" OF
SUBSECTION B "GENERAL RESTRICTIONS" OF SECTION 4
"GARAGE AND/OR YARD SALES" OF CHAPTER 4
'BUSINESS REGULATIONS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES,
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, TO CLARIFY
REGULATIONS GOVERNING DURATION AND HOURS OF
OPERATION OF GARAGE AND/OR YARD SALES;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, finds that
certain clarifications are necessary in the ordinances governing the times when
garage and/or yard sales may be conducted within the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That 1f (5) "Duration of Sale" of Subsection B "GENERAL RESTRICTIONS" of
SECTION 4: "GARAGE AND/OR YARD SALES" of Chapter 4 "BUSINESS
• REGULATIONS" of the Code of Ordinances, City of Richland Hills, Texas, as
amended, be hereby amended to hereafter be and read as follows:
"(5) Duration of Sale
No such used personal property shall be displayed,
offered for sale, or sold before 8:00 a.m. or after. 9:00
p.m. on the days authorized by the permit.
Permits issued shall not exceed a period of three (3)
consecutive days. Only one (1) permit may be issued at a
time. Persons wishing to conduct sales on two
consecutive week-ends must obtain a new permit after
the first sale is completed."
II.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this
ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and
sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
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• III.
Saving Clause. That Chapter 4 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Richland
Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as
amended by this ordinance.
1V.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and publication as provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the
laws of the State of Texas.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of
the Richland Hills City Council on the 8th day of April 1991, by a vote
of ~ ayes, nays, and 0 abstentions.
A R D:
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James R. Truitt, Mayor
ATTEST:
• Pauline Kempe, City Secre ary
VED AS TO FORM:
Paul F. Wieneskie, City ttorney
0221 a/dd/040391
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