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ORDINANCE NO. a NVO -0
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, AMENDING THE PROVISIONS
OF CHAPTER 18 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC BY AMENDING
SECTION 18-141 TO ALLOW FOR THE IMPOUNDMENT OR IMMOBILIZATION OF
VEHICLES PARKED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WELL AS PUBLIC PROPERTY IF
THE VEHICLES MEET THE CRITERIA OF SECTION 18-140; PROVIDING FOR A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $200 FOR
VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances of the City ("Motor Vehicles
and Traffic") be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section 18-141 "Procedures for
immobilization and/or impoundment" to add private property to the areas where vehicles may be
immobilized in or impounded from if the criteria in Section 18-140 are met. Section 18-141
shall read as follows:
Sec. 18-141. Procedures for immobilization and/or impoundment.
(a) When a vehicle is found parked, whether legally or illegally, at any time upon a public
street or public property in the city or upon any private property which the public has access to
and such vehicle has met the criteria for immobilization or impoundment as provided in section
18-140, any authorized parking enforcement agent of the city may immobilize the vehicle by the
installation on or attachment to the vehicle of a device, or boot, designed to prohibit the
movement of the vehicle. In the alternative, such vehicle may be towed and impounded,
provided that the towing and impoundment is authorized at the direction of a peace officer.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in
this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid by any court
of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not effect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas hereby declares it would have
enacted such remaining portions despite any invalidity.
SECTION 3. Save and except as amended hereby, all the provisions, sections,
subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of the Code of Ordinances shall remain
in full force and effect.
SECTION 4. Any person found guilty of violating this ordinance by a court of
competent jurisdiction shall be fined a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per day.
Each day that a provision of this ordinance is violated shall constitute a separate offense.
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SECTION 5. This ordinance providing for a penalty shall become effective fourteen (14)
days from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption
of this ordinance to be published twice in the Denton Record-Chronicle, the official newspaper
of the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the
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PERR McNEILL, MAYOR
ATTEST:
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
EDWIN M. SNYDER, CITY ATTORNEY
BY:
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