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ORDINANCE NO. 79-14
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS; ESTABLISHING THE SAME;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDET
THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED, AND PROVIDIN(
FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING
SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN:
Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, consisting of
Chapters 1 to 23, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted
as the "Code of Ordinances, City of Georgetown, Texas" and shall
be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive
ordinance which shall supersede all other general and permanent
ordinances passed by the City Council on or before April 11, 19781
to the extent provided in Section 2 hereof.
Section 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in fu
force and effect from and after the 1st. day of July . 197911
and the substantive provisions of all ordin—,--es of a general and
permanent nature of the City of Georgetown, nacted on final
passage on or before April 11, 1978, and not imcluded in such
Code or recognized and continued in forc, by Reference therein
hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this
ordinance, except as hereinafter provided. Resolutions of the
City, not specifically mentioned, are not hereby repealed.
Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section hereof
shall not affect any of the following:
(a) Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty
or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right
established or accruing before the effective date
of such Code;
(b) Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money for the City, or authorizing the issuance
of any bond of the City or any evidence of the
City's indebtedness;
(c) Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
(d) Any right or franchise granted by the City, whether or not all or portions of such
franchises are set out in such Code;
(e) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, opening, paving,
widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way in the City;
(f) Any ordinance relating to municipal street maintenance agreements with the State of
Texas;
(g) Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for streets in the City;
(h) Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing for the levy of ad valorem taxes
or other taxes not mentioned herein, or providing for an annual budget;
(i) Any ordinance relating to local improvements and assessments therefor; or relating to
urban renewal;
(j) Any ordinance annexing territory to the City or disannexing territory from the City;
(k) Any Ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or subdivision in the City;
(1) Ordinances prescribing traffic regulations, not in conflict herewith;
(m) Any zoning ordinance, or any platting or subdivision ordinance;
(n) Any administrative ordinance not in conflict with such code;
(o) Any ordinance prescribing personnel policies, procedures, salaries, wages, retirement
or social security;
(p) Any ordinance prescribing rates or charges of utility companies, not included herein;
(q) Any ordinance pertaining to cemeteries accepted, owned or controlled by the city;
(r) Any ordinance in the nature of an assurance or agreement with the federal government
or state government;
(s) The preambles, recitals and findings of facts contained in all ordinances included
in such code;
(t) Any ordinance enacted after April 11, 1978.
Provided, this ordinance may be amended from time to time to incorporate any of the
matters listed above into the Code of Ordinances at which time said exception or exceptions
will be deemed to be deleted, whether expressly done so or not.
This ordinance shall not be construed to revive any previously repealed ordinance.
Section 4. That whenever in such Code an act is prohibited or is made or declared to
be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code the doing of any act
is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful and no specific penalty is provided
therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), as provided in Section 1-6 of such Code.
Section 5. That any and all additions and amendments to such Code, when passed in
such form as to indicate the intention of the City Council to make the same a part thereof,
shall be deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the "Code of Ordinances,
City of Georgetown, Texas" shall be understood and intended to include such additions and
amendments.
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Section 6. In case of the amendment of any section of such Code for which a penalty
is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance and Section
1-6 of such Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such amendment
contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty,
is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such
other section shall be held to relate to the section so amended; unless such penalty is
specifically repealed therein.
Section 7. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file in the office of the City
Secretary preserved in looseleaf form, or in such form as the City Secretary may consider
most expedient. It shall be the express duty of the City Secretary, or someone authorized
by him to insert in their designated places all amendments or ordinances which indicate
the intention of the City Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have
been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such Code all provisions which
may be from time to time repealed by the City Council. Thiscopyof such Code shall
be available for all persons desiring to examine the same.
Section 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to change or amend, by additions
or de eti� ons, any part or portion of such code, or to insert or delete pages or portions
thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the law of the City of Georgetown to be misrepresented thereby. Any person violating
this section shall be punished as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance.
Section 9. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to
the extent o-Fsuch conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 10. That this ordinance shall be come effective on the lst day of July 1979.
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed toits second
reading on this the 10th day of April 1979, by the following vote:
AYES: Harry Gold, Carl Doering, William Shell, Lee Fulkes and Kenneth Olson
NO ES: None
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second and final time and passed on this
the 30th day of April 1979, by the following vote:
AYES: Kenneth Olson, Lee Fulkes, Carl Doering, William Shell and Harry Gold
NOES: NONE
Passed and Approved this the 30th day of April, 1979.
ATTEST:
City Secretary
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J n . Doerfler, Mayor
ORDINANCE NO. It?- - //
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS; ESTABLISHING THE SAME;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED
THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED, AND PROVIDING
FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING
SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN:
Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, consisting of
Chapters 1 to 23, each inclusive, is hereby adopted and enacted
as the "Code of Ordinances, City of Georgetown, Texas" and shall
be treated and considered as a new and original comprehensive
ordinance which shall supersede all other general and permanent
ordinances passed by the City Council on or before April 11, 1978,
to the extent provided in Section 2 hereof.
Section 2. That all provisions of such Code shall be in full
force and effect from and after the 1st, day of Tu3,v , 1979,
and the substantive provisions of all ordinances of a general and
permanent nature of the City of Georgetown, enacted on final
passage on or before April 11, 1978, and not included in such
Code or recognized and continued in force by reference therein are
hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this
ordinance, except as hereinafter provided. Resolutions of the
City, not specifically mentioned, are not hereby repealed.
Section 3. That the repeal provided for in Section 9 hereof
shall not affect any of the following:
(a) Any offense or act committed or done or any penalty
or forfeiture incurred or any contract or right
established or accruing before the effective date
of such Code.
(b) Any ordinance promising or guaranteeing the payment
of money for the City, or authorizing the issuance
of any bond of the City or any evidence of the
City's indebtedness;
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(e) Any contract or obligation assumed by the City;
(d) Any right or franchise granted by the City, whether
or not all or portions of such franchises are set
out in such Code;
(e) Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing,
locating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc.,
any street or public way in the City;
(f) Any ordinance relating to municipal street mainte-
nance agreements with the State of Texas;
(g) Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades for
streets in the City;
(h) Any appropriation ordinance or ordinance providing
for the levy of ad valorem taxes or other taxes not
mentioned herein, or providing for an annual. budget;
M Any ordinance relating to local improvements and
assessments therefor; or relating to urban renewal;
(j) Any ordinance annexing territory to the City or
di.sannexing territory from the City;
(k) Any ordinance dedicating or accepting any plat or
subdivision within the City or within its extra-
territorial jurisdiction. -
(1) Ordinances prescribing traffic regulations, not in
conflict herewith;
(m) .Any zoning ordinance, or any platting or subdivision
ordinance;
(n) Any administrative ordinance not in conflict with
such Code;
(o) Any ordinance prescribing personnel policies,
procedures, salaries, wages, retirement or social
security;
(p� Any ordinance prescribing rates or charges of utility
companies, not included herein;
(q) Any ordinance pertaining to cemeteries accepted,
owned or controlled by the city;
(r) Any ordinance in the nature of an assurance or
agreement with the federal government or state
government;
(s) The preambles, recitals and findings of facts
contained in all ordinances included in such
Code;
M Any ordinance enacted after April 11, 1978.
Provided, this ordinance may be amended from time to time
to incorporate any of the matters listed above into the Code
Df Ordinances at which time said exception or exceptions will
ae deemed to be deleted, whether expressly done so or not.
This ordinance shall not be construed to revive any
previously repealed ordinance.
Section 4. That whenever in such Code an act is prohibited
Dr is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a
,misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code the doing of any act is
required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful
and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of
any such provision of this Code shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), as provided in Section
1-6 of such Code.
Section 5. That any and all additions and amendments to
such Code, when passed in such form as to indicate the intention
of the City Council to make the same a part thereof, shall be
deemed to be incorporated in such Code so that reference to the
"Code of Ordinances, City of Georgetown, Texas" shall be under-
stood and intended to include such additions and amendments.
Section 6. In case of the amendment of any section of such
Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as
provided in Section 4 of this ordinance and Section 1-6 of such
Code shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such
amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the
aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another section in
the same chapter, the penalty so provided in such other section
shall be held to relate to the section so amended; unless such
penalty is specifically repealed therein.
Section 7. That a copy of such Code shall be kept on file
in the office of the City Secretary preserved in looseleaf form,
or in such form as the City Secretary may consider most expedient,
It shall be the express duty of the City Secretary, or someone
authorized by him, to insert in their designated places all
amendments or ordinances which indicate the intention of the City
Council to make the same a part of such Code when the same have
been printed or reprinted in page form, and to extract from such
Code all provisions which may be from time to time repealed by
the City Council. This copy of such Code shall be available for
all persons desiring to examine the same.
Section 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person to
change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion
of such Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof,
or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever
which will cause the law of the City of Georgetown to be misrep-
resented thereby. Any person violating this section shall be
punished as provided in Section 4 of this ordinance.
Section 9. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby
repealed.
Section 1.0. That this ordinance shall become effective on
the let, day of July • 1979:.
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time
and passed to its second reading on this the loth day of
wril , 1979, by the following vote:
AVS Harry Gold! Carl Doerings William Shelly Twee IVlkes and
Kenneth Olson
NOES: NONE
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second and
final time and passed on this the 30th. day of April , 1979,
by the following vote:
AYES: Kenneth Olson., Lee Fulkest Carl Doering.. WiL.Uam Shell and
Harry Gold
NOES: NONE
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 30th day of April , 1979.
ATTEST:
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City Secretary a or
,., T e City of Georgetown Texas
APPROVED.-
THE
PPROVEDi
CERTIFICATE
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
COUNTY OF )
I, the undersigned, City Secretary of the City of George-
town, Texas, do certify that t foregoing is a true and correct
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copy of Ordinance passed and approved by the City
Council on April 30 , 1979, as same appears in the Official
Records of the City of Georgetown, Texas, of which I am the
lawful custodian.
WITNESSETH MY HAND and the Official Seal of the City of
Georgetown, Texas, this1st.day of May , 1979.
C ty Secretary
City of Georgetown, Texas