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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 717-94 02-22-1994 • ORDINANCE NO. 71 - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 "VEHICLES FOR HIRE" OF CHAPTER 4 'BUSINESS REGULATIONS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, CLARIFYING THE TYPES OF VEHICLES SUBJECT TO REGULATION UNDER SUCH SECTION; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILTTY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS: I. That paragraph (2) "Public vehicle" of Subsection A "DEFINITIONS" of Section 1 "VEHICLES FOR HIRE" of Chapter 4 "BUSINESS REGULATIONS" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, be hereby amended to hereafter be and read as follows: (2) Public Vehicle shall mean and include any motor vehicle operated within the corporate limits of Richland Hills for the purpose of carrying • passengers for hire for which charges are assessed on a time- or distance-travelled basis, except motor buses operating on fixed routes as hereinafter specified, specially chartered buses and driverless cars. The term shall also include motor driven vehicles with or without a taximeter and hired or rented where rates are charged on a time basis or a distance-travelled basis. 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 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. 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. ORDINANCE NO. 117-94 PAGE 1 • PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of the Richland Hills City Council on the day of FPh,_ „a,-~ 1994, by a vote of 5 ayes, ~ nays, and ~ abstentions. APPROVED: C. F. Kelley, Mayor ATTEST: errs is, City Secretary APPROV AS O FORM: 1 aul F. Wi neskie, City Attorney mlib476/bh/021494 ORDINANCE NO. 717-94 PAGE 2