HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 791-96 02-13-1996
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ORDINANCE NO. 791-96
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 738-94 OF
THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, WHICH ADDED A
NEW SECTION ENTITLED "TEEN COURT ADVISORY BOARD"
TO CHAPTER 13 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS; ADDING ADDITIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP ON SAID BOARD;
PROVIDING FOR STAFF 5UPPORT; PROVIDING FOR
CERTAIN RECORD KEEPING BY THE CITY SECRETARY;
REDEFINING QUORUM REQUIREMENTS; INCREASING THE
NUMBER OF MEMBERS ON SAID BOARD; SPECIFYING
DATES FOR QUARTERLY MEETINGS; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE;
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHLAND
HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That Ordinance No. 738-94 of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, establishing a
Teen Court Advisory Board as an amendment to Chapter 13 of the Code of
• Ordinances, City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, be hereby amended in the
following specified particulars:
A. Subsection A of said Teen Court Advisory Board ordinance shall be hereby
amended to hereafter be and read as follows:
A. CREATION• OUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS
There is hereby created the Richland Hills Teen Court Advisory
Board. Members of the board shall be registered voters and
citizens of the city on the date of their appointment. No
member may serve in any capacity on more than one other
Richland Hills standing board, commission and committee, or
any special committee exceeding six month's duration; or serve
as city representative to a local, state or national
organization. All members shall serve without compensation.
No debts of any kind or character shall be made or incurred by
the board or by anyone acting in its behalf.
B. Paragraph 1 of Subsection B "COMPOSITION, APPOINTMENTS AND
TERMS OF MEMBERS" of said Teen Court Advisory Board ordinance shall
be hereby amended to hereafter be and read as follows:
(1) The Teen Court Advisory Board shall be composed of ten (10)
members who shall hold designated places la through Sa and lb
through Sb. Two of the members shall be a student eligible for
• participation in the program, but need not be a registered voter.
Each Councilmember shall be entitled to nominate persons to serve
on said board in the numbered place corresponding to the numbered
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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 shall be appointed
according to council places 1 through 5. Their term coinciding to the
respective Councilmember term. All appointments to boards,
commissions and committees shall be made by the City Council.
C. Subsection D "OFFICERS" of said Teen Court Advisory Board ordinance
shall be hereby amended by the addition of the following language at the
end of said Section D as it currently exists:
"Each board shall be responsible for setting up their own needs. In
the event staff support is needed, it should be coordinated through
the City Manager's office. A chairman, vice chairman and secretary
shall meet the minimum office requirements for each board,
commission, and committee."
D. Subsection I "APPLICATIONS" of said Teen Court Advisory Board
ordinance shall be hereby amended by the addition of the following
language to the end of said Subsection as it currently exists.
"The City Secretary shall maintain previously filed applications
indefinitely of an appointed board, commission or committee
member if said member is to be considered for reappointment by the
• City Council and said member has expressed a desire to continue
serving on said board, commission or committee."
E. Subsection E "MEETINGS, RULES OF PROCEDURE AND QUORUM" of
said Teen Court Advisory Board ordinance shall be hereby amended to
hereafter be and read as follows:
E. MEETINGS. RULES OF PROCEDURE AND OUORUM
The Board shall hold meetings every quarter on
the fourth Monday of the months of June, September, December
and March at a time and place designated by a majority vote of the
members. The Board shall, in all matters of procedure, be governed
by Roberts Rules of Order, and may adopt such additional rules of
procedure as it may deem necessary. A majority of the currently
appointed members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business. (A quorum is one more than half the currently appointed
members). Meetings may also be held at the call of the chairman or
upon request of three (3) members of the board.
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
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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 and Ordinance No.
738-94 ,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 13th day of February, 1996, by a vote
of ~ ayes, nays, and ~ abstentions.
APPROVED:
C. F. Kelley, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Terri-- llis City Secret
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
Paul F. Wieneskie, City Attorney
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