HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 708-94 01-11-1994 ORDINANCE NO. 7 ~ ~ - ~ a
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4 "CRIlVIE
PREVENTION ADVISORY BOARD" OF CHAPTER 13
"ADVISORY BOARDS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AS AMENDED, TO
REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF SAID CRIlVIE
PREVENTION ADVISORY BOARD TO FIVE (5) MEMBERS;
MODIFYING APPOINTMENT PROCEDURES; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILTTY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE;
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Richland Hills Crime Prevention Advisory Board is presently
composed of ten (10) members; and
WHEREAS, the Committee has been unable to conduct its business in recent
months because of its inability to assemble a quorum of its members for its regular
meetings; and
WHEREAS, the Chairman of the said Crime Prevention Advisory Board has
recommended that the membership of the Board be reduced from ten (10) members
to five (5) members in order that the Advisory Board may perform the duties and
tasks assigned to it.
• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That Subsection B "Composition, Appointments and Terms of Members" of
Section 4 "Crime Prevention Advisory Board" of Chapter 13 "Advisory Boards" of
the Code of Ordinances of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, be hereby
amended to hereafter be and read as follows:
B. COMPOSITION APPOINTMENTS AND TERMS OF MEMBERS
(1) The Crime Prevention Advisory Board shall be composed of five (5)
members who shall hold designated places 1-5. Each
councilmember shall be entitled to nominate persons to serve on
said board in the numbered place corresponding to the numbered
place on the City council held by said councilmember. All
nominations shall be approved unless rejected by the affirmative
vote of four (4) councilmembers. Members of the board shall serve
terms of two years, corresponding to the term of the
councilmember whose place corresponds to the numbered place held
by the individual member.
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• 2 The cit staff re resentative to the board shall be the Chief of
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Police or a designated representative approved by the City Manager.
(3) Due to the sensitive nature of the information provided to the board
and of the matters considered by said board, applicants for
membership shall be subject to background checks prior to their
appointment.
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.
III.
Saving Clause. That Chapter 13 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.
IV.
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 llthday of January 1994, by a vote
of 5 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
C. F. elley, Mayor
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ATTEST:
"Terri i lis, City Secretar
APPROVED AS TO FO M:
Paul F. ieneski ty Attorney
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