HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-029AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING MOBILE SERVICE UNITS WITHIN THE CITY OF
DENTON, DEFINING SAME, PROVIDING A pENALTY, AND DECLARING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, HEREBY ORDAINS
PART I
That the Code of the City of Denton, Texas, ~s hereby amended
by adding new Section 10-9 to Chapter Ten, Article I, of sa~d Code,
which shall hereafter read as follows
CHAPTER 10
FIRE PREVENTION
Article I In General
Section 10-9 Mobile Service Un~ts Prohibited
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to sell or d~spense fuel from a mobile service unit ~n the C~ty of
Denton, or to operate the same as a service station, ~nclud~nq self
service
(b) A Mobile Serv~c~ Un~,~, as used ~n th~s section, shall mean
and include any vehicle, tank, tank truck, or other movable device
from which flammable l~qu~ds used as fuel may, as an act of retail
sale, be dispensed ~nto the fuel tank of a motor vehicle It ~s the
~ntent of this section to prohibit mobile aasol~ne filling stations
which e~ther park or roam around on off street parking lots and from
which the dr~ver or attendant makes sales of gasoline to persons whose
vehicles are parked on such lots Th~s section shall not apply to
the delivery of l~quefled petroleum gas to lawful recipients having
proper containers other than motor vehicles, or to the emerqency de-
livery of motor fuel to a stalled vehicle PART II
The violation of any provision of th~s ordinance shall be
punished by a fine of not exceed~nq Two Hundred ($200 00) Dollars,
and Section 1-5 of the Code of Ordinances is ~ncorporated here~n and
made a part hereof
PART III
Tha% if any section, subsection, paraqraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word in th~s ord3nance, or application thereof to any
person or c3rcumstances is held ~nval3d by any court of competent
3ur~sd~ction, such holding shall not affect the val3d3ty of the
rema~n3ng portions of th3s ordinance, and the City Counc31 of the
C3ty of Denton, Texas, hereby declares 3t would have enacted such
remaining portions despite any such ~nvalld~ty PART IV
That th3s ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days
from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary 3s hereby d3r-
ected to cause the capt3on of this ordinance to be published twice
3n the Denton Record-Chron3cle w~th~n ten (10) days of the date of
~ts passage ~ ~
PASSED AND APPROVED this the , day of '
A D 1971
~EEXAN~ER M FiN~A~F, ~ ,/~u~
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS N~ F
:~~', TEXAS
/~O~"K~ HOLT, ~
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
T
J~'- Q BAR ,
/~Y OF DENTON, TEXAS