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ORDINANCE NO. 2694
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18 OF THE NORTH RICHLAND
HILLS CODE OF ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITING PEDDLERS, ITINERANT
MERCHANTS AND SOLICITORS AFTER DARK, ON HOLIDAYS AND TIMES
OF HEIGHTENED SECURITY RISK; ESTABLISHING A PENALTY;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND FOR PUBLICATION.
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WHEREAS, the Nation is currently operating under heightened security risks as established by
the Department of Homeland Security; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to implement restrictions on persons engaged in door-to-
door merchandising during such times of such heightened security risks; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND
HILLS, TEXAS.
Section 1:
THAT Section 18-2 of the North Richland Hills Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 18-2. Restrictions on Time of Solicitation.
It shall be prohibited for any itinerant merchant, vendor, solicitor or salesman, as those
tenns are defined in this chapter, to go, unless requested, from house to house or from place to
place in the City soliciting, selling or peddling:
(1)
on Sunday, any Federally designated holiday, or any day where the Department
of Homeland Security has declared an orange or red state of alert; or
(2)
between the hours of sunset and sunrise on any other day.
This section shall not apply to a visit to the premises resulting from a request or invitation
by the occupant or person in charge of the premises."
Section 2:
Any person, finn or corporation violating any provision ofthis ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon final conviction thereof fined in an
amount not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each day any such
violation shall be allowed to continue shall constitute a separate violation and
punishable hereunder.
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Section 3:
The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to cause the publication of
the descriptive caption and penalty clauses of this ordinance as an alternative
method of publication provided by law.
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Section 4:
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases ofthis ordinance are severable and, if
any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be
declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the final judgment or decree of
any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections ofthis ordinance,
since the same would have been enacted by the city council without the
incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or section.
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AND IT IS SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 24th day of March, 2003.
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