Ordinance No. 5,684Published In: THE BAY'TOWN SUN
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Tuesday, October 30, 1990
ORDINANCE NO. 5684
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 1, "GENERAL PROVISIONS,"
OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO CHARGE THE MAXIMUM PENALTY
. FOR VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; 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 Section 1 -5(a) of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended to read follows:
Section 1 -5. General penalty for violations of Code;
continuing violations, fee for issuance and service of
warrant of arrest or rearrest.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this code or in
any ordinance of the city or state statute, whenever an
act or omission is prohibited, required, made or
declared unlawful, illegal, an offense or a Class C
misdemeanor, any person adjudged guilty of such offense
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500.000).
Section 2: 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repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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 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: If any provisions, 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 application
to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect from and after
ten (10) days from 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 passage of this ordinance.
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INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 23rd day of
• October, 1990.
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ATTEST:
EI;,EEN P. HALL, City Cle k
RANDALL B. STRONG, Ci>-Attorney
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