HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 820-97 07-22-1997 ORDINANCE NO. 820-97
AN ORDINANCE CONTINUING IN EFFECT ORDINANCE NO.
730-94, ADOPTED ON JULY 26, 1994, AND CODIFIED AS
SECTION 6 OF CHAPTER 7, ENTITLED "CURFEW HOURS
FOR MINORS", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS; REFLECTING
COMPLIANCE WITH ALL REQUIREMENTS OF STATE LAW;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, after study,
heretofore enacted Richland Hills Ordinance No. 730-94 on July 26, 1994, adding to
the Richland Hills Code of Ordinances Section 6 of Chapter 7, imposing curfew hours
for minors as defined therein, and providing certain exceptions, rules and regulations
for the enforcement thereof; and
WHEREAS, Section 370.002 of the Texas Local Government Code requires that
such an ordinance be reexamined periodically to determine whether such provisions
should be continued in effect, modified or abolished; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, has heretofore
conducted a review of its curfew ordinance's effect on the community and on the
problems the ordinance was intended to remedy; and
WHEREAS, the Richland Hills City Council has conducted a public hearing on
the need to continue in effect the Richland Hills juvenile curfew ordinance; and
WHEREAS, based on its review of the ordinance's effects on the community and
on the problems the ordinance was intended to remedy, and based on input obtained
at the public hearing, the Richland Hills City Council now finds and determines that
the current juvenile curfew ordinance provisions in effect within the City should be
continued in effect without modification.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That Ordinance No. 730-94, adopted on July 26, 1994, and codified as Section 6
of Chapter 7 of the Richland Hills Code of Ordinances, as amended, and entitled
"Curfew hours for minors" be and the same is hereby continued in effect within the
corporate limits of the City of Richland Hills, Tarrant County, Texas.
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.
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 Coun it on the 22nd day of July 1997, by a vote
of 5 ayes, 0 nays, and ~ abstentions.
'.,APPROVED:
- ' C. F. Kelle Ma or
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ATTEST:
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VED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
aul F. Wieneskie, Cit ttorn y
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