HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 328 CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. ~D~
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS
INCREASING AND SETTING A WARRANT FEE; REPEALING ALL
PREVIOUSLY ENACTED ORDINANCES OR RESOLUTIONS OF
THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS INCONSISTENT HEREWITH;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFEC-
TIVE DATE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS:
Section 1. That a warrant fee charged as a special expense each time
any person is required to or agrees to appear in the municipal court and fails
to do so, thereby cansing the issuance and service of a warrant of arrest for such
person for the purpose of bringing such person before the municipai court, shall
be established in the amount of Twenty Five Dollars ($25.00). Such warrant fee
shall also be charged for the issuance and service of any warrant of arrest after
due notice has been given for any reason. The warrant fee shah be paid into
the City Treasury for the use and benefit of the City.
Section 2. That all ordinances and resolutions of the City of The
Colony, Texas previously enacted by the City Council which are inconsistent
with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 3. If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or
word in this ordinance, or appiication thereto any person or circumstance is held
invalid or unconstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance; and the
City Council hereby declares it wemd have passed such remaining portions of the
ordinance despite such invalidity which remaining portions shall remain in full
force and effect.
Section 4. The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the
City of The Colony, Texas, are inadequate to properly safeguard the health,
safety, morals, peace, and genera1 welfare of the inhabitants of the City of The
Colony, Texas, creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of public
business, property, health, safety, and general welfare of the public which
requires that this ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of
its passage and it is according!y so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED on the ~ day of '~fw~.n~, 1985.
~City o~f-The Coio~, Texas
ATTEST:
~~~e~ ' ' Colony, Texas
[SEAL]
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney, City of The Colony, Texas