Ordinance No. 1,102ORDINANCE NO. 1102
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF BAYTOWN; AMENDING ARTICLE 4 BY THE ADDITION
OF A NEW SECTION; THEREBY MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO
STORE MOTOR VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY; REPEALING
ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION
AND EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Baytown, Texas is hereby amended by the amendment of Article 4
and by making an additional Section to said Article as to make
it unlawful to store a motor vehicle on private property. The
amendment to said Article shall read as follows; to --wit:
Section 33 -27.1 Vehicle Storage on Private Property
Unlawful.
(a) it shall be unlawful to park, store or leave or to
permit the parking, storing or leaving of any licensed
or unlicensed motor vehicle of any kind, or parts
thereof, which is in a rusted, wrecked, junked, par-
tially dismantled, inoperative or abandoned condition,
whether attended or not, upon any private property
within the City Limits of the City of Baytown for a
period of time in excess of thirty (30) days unless
such vehicle or parts thereof is completely enclosed
within a building or is stored in connection with a
used car or junk area lawfully established and main-
tained pursuant to the Code of Ordinances of the City
of Baytown.
(b) The accumulation and storage of one or more of such
vehicles, or parts thereof as defined above, on pri-
vate property shall constitute a nusiance, detrimental
to the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants
of the City and it shall be the duty of the owner of
such vehicle or parts thereof and /or it shall also be
the duty of the owner of the private property, or
lessee or other person in possession of private pro-
perty upon which such vehicle or parts is located, to
remove the same from such property or to have the same
housed in a building where it will not be visible from
the street or other private property.
(c) Any person, firm or corporation violating any provi-
sion of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and each shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense
for each day or portion thereof during which any vi-
olation hereof is committed continued or permitted,
and upon conviction of any such violation shall be
subject to the penalty provided in Section I -5 of
Code of Ordinances.
Section 2: Savings Clause: If any provision, section,
exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of
this ordinance or the application of same to any person or set
of circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity
of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their appli-
cation to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end
all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 3: Repealing Clause: All ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are
hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be
only to the extent of such inconsistence and in all other re-
spects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances
regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this
ordinance.
Section 4: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take
effect from and after ten (10) days after its passage by the
City Council. The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice
hereof by causing the caption of this ordinance to be published
in the official newspaper of the City of Baytown at least twice
within ten (10) days after its passage.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the �.�� day of
June, 1971.
ATTEST:
EDNA OLIVER, City Clerk
APPROVED:
C. GLEN WALKER, Mayor
. DEHART, Acting City Attorney