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ORDINANCE NO. 2349
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AMENDING
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2289 AND 2331 TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM ON
SIGNS THAT CONTAIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council is concerned about protecting residential properties from
unnecessary glare from flashing lights on electronic message boards, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has declared a moratorium on signs that contain electronic
message boards, and determines that said moratorium is necessary to extend for an additional
one hundred and twenty days; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS,
TEXAS:
1.
THAT, Ordinance Number 2289 and Ordinance Number 2331 is hereby amended to extend the
time period whereby no permit shall be issued and no sign that contains an electronic message
board shall be constructed or erected within the City of North Richland Hills, except within the
Freeway Overlay Zone. This moratorium will expire on February 26, 1999.
2.
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that
the section, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if
any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs or sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
3.
SAVINGS CLAUSE. That any and all other ordinances of the City of North Richland Hills,
Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect.
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4.
EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force from and after its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THIS 11th DAY OF JANUARY, 1999.
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Mayor Charles Scoma
City of Nørth Richland Hills, Texas
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City Secretary
City of North Richland Hills, Texas
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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