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AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OF LIVESTOCK
.OF ANY CHARACTER AND FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHIN THIS
CITY; ALSO PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OF ANY OTHER
ANIMALS AND FOWLS WHEN KEPT OR USED ON A COMMERCIAL
BASIS OR FOR COMMPERCIAL PURPOSES: AND PROVIDING A
PENALTY, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH
RICHLAND HILLS:
SECTION I
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The term "person" as used herein is used in its generic
sense to include a natural person, firm, partnership, corporation
or association of any kind or character. The term "I ivestock" as
used herein is used in its ordinary meaning and is to include, but
not to the exclusion of others .e not herein enumerated, such animals
as horses, cattle, sheep, goats and hogs. The term "animal" as
used in the phrase Itany other animals" is used in its generic sense
to include all animals of any kind. The term "fowl" as used herein
is used in its generic sense and ordinary and common acceptation of
the meaning of the word.
SECTION II
No person shall be allowed to keep or maintain 1 ivestock
within the I imits of this City, the keeping and maintenance of which
is hereby prohibited.
SECTION I I I
No person shall keep or maintain a dog or dogs for any
purpose other than as a pet, and the keeping and maintenance of dogs
for any other purpose, including, but not excluding other purposes,
such as breeding, sale and the maintenance of kennels or in furtherance
of any commercial purpose or enterprise is hereby prohibited.
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SECTION IV
No person shall keep fowls of any kind or character when
their keeping or maintenance within the city 1 imits is on a commercial
basis or in the furtherance of any commercial purpose, and provided
further that any person keeping or maintaining fowls for purposes not
herein prohibited shall keep them securely enclosed and confined to
the premises of the keeper thereof, and shall not permit them to run
or fly at large, which is hereby prohibited.
SECTION V
Any person who shall knowingly and willfully violate any
~ of the provisions hereof shall upon conviction thereof be subject
to a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $200.00 for such
offen6e, and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate
offense.
SECTION VI.
The fact that this City is a new, fast growing and extensive
development, and that the City now has no ordinance regulating the
keeping or maintenance of I ivestock, dogs or fowls, and that the keep-
ing thereof vitally àÆfects the growth, health and general welfare
of the inhabitants of the City and those contemplating investments
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therein, creats an emergency and imperative publ ic necessity requiring
the suspension of any rule that ordinances shall be read in three
meetings of the City Council, and said rule is therefore hereby sus-
pended and this ordinance is put upon its final reading and passed
by a vote of
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Signed and approved by the Mayor and City Secretary this
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F'UBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT:
Before me the undersigned authority, on this day personally
appeared __S_~~~!l_~~~_~!~________________________, known to me.
who, being by me duly sworn. on his oath deposes and says that he is
the publisher of the -..JIaltO....~-)1'eW8----------_______. a weekly
newspaper of general circulation published in said county. that a copy
of the attached notice concerning the passage of Ordinance No. __2____
of the City ----JlQ~'h....Ric},1_.udH1l1. _____ was published in one
issue of said newspaper. such publication being on the following date:
A~'lt!~~~!"_}_8-L_12S3_____, a newspaper copy of such publication notice
being hereto attached.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this he J..f. day Of_~
A. D., 1~53.
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Notary Public, Tarrant County, Texas