ADOPTING ORDINANCE

ORDINANCE NO. 451

ENACTING AS AN ORDINANCE, A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF BURKBURNETT, TEXAS, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SAID CODE.

WHEREAS, the present general ordinances of the City of Burkburnett are incomplete and inadequate and the manner of arrangement, classification and indexing thereof is insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the City; and

WHEREAS, the Acts of the Texas Legislature of the State of Texas empower and authorize the City Commissioners of this City to revise, amend, restate, codify and to compile any existing ordinance or ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate said ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinances of the City of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinances in book form.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett, Texas, that:

Section 1. The general ordinances of the City of Burkburnett, Texas, as herein revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the City of Burkburnett, Texas."

Section 2. Said Code as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following titles, to-wit:

            Title I      General Provisions

            Title III      Administration

            Title V      Public Works

            Title VII      Traffic Code

            Title IX      General Regulations

            Title XI      Business Regulations

            Title XIII   General Offenses

            Title XV      Land Usage

            Table of Special Ordinances

            Parallel References

            Index

Section 3. All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in said Code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of said Code except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in said Code; provided such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of said Code, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinances levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory

establishing franchises or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plats or dedication of land to public use, naming or vacating or setting the boundaries of streets, alleys or other public places, nor to any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained therein.

Section 4. Said Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the City Commissioners, and the Clerk of the City of Burkburnett is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of said Code in the Office of the City Clerk.

Section 5. Said Code shall be in full force and effect two weeks from the date of its publication and filing thereof in the Office of the Clerk, and said Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested, recorded and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett, Texas, this 19 day of September, 1988.

                           Pat Norriss /s/

                           Mayor

ATTEST:

Lahoma Wood /s/

City Secretary