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ORDINANCE NO. 7746
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25'/2 "STANDARD SIGN
® CODE," SECTION 25'/2 -5 "SIGN PERMITS AND FEES," SUBSECTION
(G)(3) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS; REPEALING CHAPTER 25'/2 "STANDARD SIGN CODE,"
SECTION 25!/2-5 "SIGN PERMITS AND FEES," SUBSECTION (G)(4) OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS;
PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That Chapter 25'/2 "Standard Sign Code," Section 25!/2-5 "Sign permits and
fees," Subsection (G)(3) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Chapter 25'h Standard Sign Code
See. 25 '/: -5. Sign permits and fees.
(G) Existing signs; operating permits:
(3) When any sign or a substantial part of a sign is destroyed, damaged, or taken
down or removed for any purpose other than maintenance operations or for
changing the letters, symbols or other -matter on such sign, it shall not be re-
erected, reconstructed or rebuilt, except in full conformance with this chapter.
A sign or substantial part of it is considered to have been destroyed only if
the cost of repairing the sign is more than sixty percent (60 %) of the cost of
erecting a new sign of the same type at the same location.
Section 2: That Chapter 25 %2 "Standard Sign Code," Section 25'/2 -5 "Sign permits and
fees," Subsection (G)(4) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby
repealed.
Section 3: 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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such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 4: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any person or the set of circumstances, shall
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Section 4: If any provision, section, exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause
® or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any person or the 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 5: 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 the I 1 th day of July, 1996.
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PETE C. ALFAR , Mayor
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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