Ordinance No. 2,0867045
ORDINANCE NO. 2086
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 1 -- GENERAL
PROVISIONS," BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 1 -7;
PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Section 4, Article I of the Charter of the
City of Baytown specifically provides the manner for perfecting
a claim for damages against the City; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes for claims to be properly
submitted and directed through appropriate administrative
channels; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to eliminate any possibility
of waiver or estoppel of its Charter's notice provisions;
NOW THEREFORE,
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 amending Chapter 1 --
"General Provisions," by adding a new Section 1 -7, Limiting
waiver of notice of claims against city, which shall read as
follows, to -wit:
Sec. 1 -7. Limiting waiver of notice of claims against city.
No officer, employee, or agent of the
shall have authority to waive any of th
Section 4, Article I, of the Charter of
for written notice of claim to the city
clerk within thirty (30) days after the
injury or damage.
City of Baytown
e provisions of
the City, providing
manager or city
occurrence of an
Section 2: Repealing Clause: All ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance
are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal
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shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all
other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other
ordinances regulating and governing the subject matter
covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: 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 uncon-
stitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this
ordinance of their application to other persons or sets of
circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordi-
nance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take
effect immediately from and after its passage by the City
Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown this 23rd day
Of- September , 1976.
Nap.. /Av4;r--
TOM GENTRY, Mayor
-ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
NEEL C DSON, City Attorney
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