Ordinance No. 6,955Published In: THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, March 29, 1994
Wednesday, March 30, 1994
ORDINANCE NO. 6955
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. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18 "MOTOR VEHICLES AND
TRAFFIC," ARTICLE VI "STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING," OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, BY ADDING
SECTION 18- 51(g); PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE;
CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM
PENALTY OF TWO HUNDRED AND N01100 DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR
EACH VIOLATION THEREOF; 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 Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic,"
Article VI "Stopping, Standing and Parking," of the Code of
Ordinances, City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended by adding
Section 18 -51(g) to read as follows:
Sec. 18 -51. Parking Prohibited for Certain Vehicles and
Purposes.
(g) A person commits an offense if he stops, stands, or parks
any motor vehicle on any public property, including any
street, sidewalk, highway, parking lot, alley or
easement, or upon any private property to which the
public generally has access, including shopping center
parking lots, apartment complex parking lots, or any
other similar area, for the purpose of displaying such
motor vehicle for sale without the written permission of
the owner of the property. It is an exception if such
stopping, standing, or parking was necessitated by the
normal use of that vehicle.
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with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided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 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 beheld 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: Any person who fails to comply with the provisions
of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall be fined a sum of not less than TWENTY -FIVE AND
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N01100 DOLLARS ($25.00) nor more than TWO HUNDRED AND NO /100
DOLLARS ($200.00).
Section 5: 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.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 24th day of March,
1994.
ATTEST:
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CIO RAMIREZ, ., C ity Attorney
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PETE C. AL O, Mayor