1981-005 NO -O5
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE I, SECTION 14-4(b) OF THE
DENTON CODE OF ORDINANCES, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR THE
DISCHARGING OF FIREARMS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
DENTON UPON PERMISSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, PROVIDING FOR A FINE OF
NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200 00) FOR EACH VIOLATION
HEREOF, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION
AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I
That Chapter 14, Article I, Section 14-4(b) of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Denton, Texas, as amended, is hereby
amended by adding a new Section 14-4(b) (6), which said section shall
read as follows
(6) When the City Council has granted permission to a
person under the authority vested in Chapter 4 of the
Denton Code of Ordlnances, as amended (also known as
the Denton Animal Control Ordlnance)
SECTION II
Any person who shall violate a provision of this ordlnance, or
falls to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof,
or of a permit or certificate ~ssued thereunder, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor punlshable by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars
($200 00) Each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate
offense for each and every day or port~on thereof during which any
violation of th~s ordinance is committed, or continued, and upon
conviction of any such violations such person shall be punished
wlthln the llmlts above
SECTION III
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word ~n this ordinance, or applzcatzon thereof to any
person or circumstances is held invalid by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the val~dlty of the
remaining portions of this ordlnance, and the City Council of the
City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares ~t would have enacted such
remaining port~ons despite any such ~nval~d~ty
SECTION IV
That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days
from the date of lts passage, and the City Secretary is hereby
directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be published
twlce ~n the Denton Record-Chronicle, the offzc~al newspaper of the
City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its
passage
PASSED AND APPROVED th~s the 20~ day of ~'~moA~ , 1981
~/R~HARD f~ STEW~ART, MAYO~'
CI?Y OF ~ENTON, TEXAS
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
C J TAYLOR, JR , CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS