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(A) If the legislative body shall desire to amend any existing chapter or section of this code, the chapter or section shall be specifically repealed and a new chapter or section, containing the desired amendment, substituted in its place.
(B) Any ordinance which is proposed to add to the existing code a new chapter or section shall indicate, with reference to the arrangement of this code, the proper number of the chapter or section. In addition to the indication thereof as may appear in the text of the proposed ordinance, a caption or title shall be shown in concise form above the ordinance.
(A) As histories for the code sections, the specific number and passage date of the original ordinance, and the amending ordinances, if any, are listed following the text of the code section. Example: (Ord. 10, passed 5-13-1960; Ord. 15, passed 1-1-1970; Ord. 20, passed 1-1-1980; Ord. 25, passed 1-1-1985)
(B) (1) If a statutory cite is included in the history, this indicates that the text of the section reads substantially the same as the statute. Example: (Tex. Local Gov’t Code, § 54.001) (Ord. 10, passed 1-17-1980; Ord. 20, passed 1-1-1985)
(2) If a statutory cite is set forth as a “statutory reference” following the text of the section, this indicates that the reader should refer to that statute for further information. Example:
§ 39.01 PUBLIC RECORDS AVAILABLE.
This municipality shall make available to any person for inspection or copying all public records, unless otherwise exempted by state law.
Statutory reference:
Inspection of public records, see Tex. Local Gov’t Code §§ 552.001 et seq.
It shall be an offense for any unauthorized person to change or amend, by addition or deletion, any part or portion of this code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or to tamper with this code in any manner whatsoever which will cause a law of the city to be misrepresented thereby.
Penalty, see § 10.99
All ordinances adopted or passed by the City Commission shall be inscribed at large by the Secretary in a special book to be kept for that purpose by the Secretary. The book of ordinances and all copies and extracts therefrom shall be evidence of the tenor and contents of the ordinances therein inscribed, as well as such as have been heretofore or as may be hereafter therein so inscribed.
(1998 Code, § 1-6)
Whenever in this code or in any ordinance of the city an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such code or ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this code or any such ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city that govern fire safety, zoning and public health and sanitation, including dumping of refuse, and in all other cases arising under the ordinances of the city such violation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500; provided, however, that, no penalty shall be greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or a similar offense under the laws of the state. Each day any violation of this code or of any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that, the imposition of any such fine for any such violation shall not constitute an estoppel for other relief against any such violation available at law.
(1998 Code, § 1-7)
Statutory reference:
Enforcement authority; penalty, see Tex. Local Gov’t Code § 54.001