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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 0133 ~".."--'---:;--~ - _..^'--.;_._,..~._.__._-.- ORDINANCE NO. lJJ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 90, THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE HEGULATING THE HEIGHT TO WHICH GRASS, WEEDS OR UNCULTIVATED PLANTS SHALL BE PERMITTED TO GROW WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF NORTH HICHLAND HILLS UPON PRIVATE PREMISES; REGULATING THE, HEIGHT'D WHICH GRASS, WEEDS OR UNCULTIVATED PLANTS SHALL BE PERMITTED TO GROW ALONG OR ADJACENT TO PUBLIC STREETS; REQUIRING THE OWNER OF ANY LOT OR LOTS TO KEEP THE SAME PREE FROM RUBBISH, BRUSH AND ANY AND ALL OTHER OBJECT I * ONAL UNSIGHTLY OR UNSANITARY MATTER OF WHATEVER NATURE, REQUIRING THE CUTTING AND REMOVAL OF CERTAIN WEEDS AND GRASS, PROVIDING FOR THE CUTTING AND REMOVAL OF CERTAIN WEEDS AND GRASS 8Y THE CITY OF NDRTH RICIiLAND HILLS, WITH THE COST INCURRED TO CONSTITUTE A LIEN, RPOVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF ALL OTHER ORDINANCES, AFFECTING THE GROWTH OF GRASS, WEEDS OR UNCULTIVATED PLANTS AND NAMING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH HICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS: SECTION 1 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership, assooiation of persons, owner, agent, occupant or an,one having supervision or control of any bt , tract, Darcel of land or portion thereot, ocoupød improved or unimproved within the corporate limits ot the City of North Riohland Hills to suffer or permit grass, weeds or any plant that is not cultivated to grow to a greater height than twelve inches (12-) on an average or to grow in rank profusion upon said premises. Wity respect to lots, tracts or parcels of land of two or more acres under single ownership, the provisions of this section shall not be applioable to the area in excess of one hundred feet (100') from any adjacent propoety under different ownership on which habitable dwellings are located. SECTION 2 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership, assooiation of persons, owner, agent, ocoupant or anyone having sopervision or oontrol of any lot, traot, parcel of land or portion thereof, ocoupied or onoccupied, improved or unimproved within the corporate limits of the City of North Riohland Hills to suffer or permit grass, weeds or any plant that is not oultivated to grow in rank profusion, or otherwise in, along, upon, or across the sidewalk or street adjacent to same in the area of ten feet (10') beyðnd the property llne to a height greater than twelve inches (12-) on an average. SECTION J It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, of persons, ow.n~r, agent, ocoupant or anyone having supervision or control of any lot, traot,pa~oel of land or portion thereof, oooupied or un oooupied, "roved or unimproved, within the corporate limits of the City of North Riohlan4 Hills to suffer or permit any rubbish, brush, any and all other objection- able, unsightly or unsanitary matter or whatever nature to accumulat~ or be present upon any suoh lot, traot, or paroel of land SECTION 4 It shall be the duty of any person, firm, oorpo- ration, partnership, .sociation of persons, owner, a.ent, occupant or anyone having supervision or ~ontrol of any lot, tract, parcel of land or portion thereof, oooupied or unoooupied, improved or unimproved, within the corporate limits of the City of North Hiòhland Hills to cut, or cause to be cut and remove or cause to be removed, if neoessary, to oomply with Seotion 3 of this ordinanoe, all such grass, weeds, plants, rubbish, brush, and any and all other objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary matter of whatever nature as ot'ten as may be necessary to oomply with the provisions of Sections 1,2 and J of this ordinance. SECTION .5 "'~. In the_ent that the owner of any lot, tract, parcel of land or a portion thereof situated within the.:orporate limits of the City of North Hiohland fUlls shall fail to comply with Seotion 4 of this ordinance then the street and Inspections Supervisor of the Public Works Department of the City of North Riohland Hills may notify by letter, such owner, addressed to him at his post office address, or by publioation as smny as two ~ime8 within ten consecutive day8 in the official newspaper it personal servioe may not be had as aforesaid, or the owner's address be not known, of said owner's failure to comply with Section 4 of this ordinance and at the expiration of ten days after notification, the City of North Hichland Hills may enter upon such premises and may do such work as neoessary, or oause the same to be done, in order that the premises may comply with the requirements set forth in Seotion 4. A statement of the cost inourred by the City of North Hichland Hills to abate such condition shall be mailed to the owner of said premises, which statement shall be paid within ~hlrty days (30 days) of the date of the mailing thereof. In the event that said statement has not been paid within .. --""------ '~ suoh period. the Mayor of the City of North Hiohland Hills may file a statement with the County Clerk of Tarrant County of the expenses inurred to abate such condi tion on said premises, and the City of r,forth Riohland Hills shall have a privileged lien on any lot, traot, or parcel of land upon whioh suoh expenses is incurred seoond only to tax liens, '.sether with six per oent (6~) on the delinquent amount from the date suoh payment is due. For any such expenditure and interest, as aforesaid, suit may be instituted and reoovery and foreclosure had in the.... of ~he City of North Hiohland Hills and the statement so ~de,r as aforesaid, or a oopy thereof shall be ~rima raoia·proor of the amount expended in any suoh work ~rformed by the City of North Hiohland Hills. SECTION 6 Any person vioJating any of the provisions of thiS ordinanoe shall upon conviotion, be fined in any sum of money not less than One Dollar (#1.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). Eaoh day any such violation of this ordinanoe shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 7 If any seotion, subseotion, clause, sentence, Dhrase or word of this ordinanoe is for any reason held void or unconstitutional by a court of competent juri8- diotion, such invalidity shall not affeot the validity of the remaining seotions, subseotions, clauses, sentenoes phrases or words exoept as the same are inseparable from and indispensable to'the remaining portions of the ordinanoe. SECTION 8 Thi8 ordinanoe shall be oumulative of all other ordinanoes of the City of North Riohland Hill. relating to the subjeot matter hereof except where such ordinanoes or parts thereot a~e in conflict with the provisions or this ordinance, in whioh event, such ordinances or parts of ordinances so conflioting are hereby expressly repealed. SECTION 9 Thi8 ordinanoe shall take etfect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and publication as 9rovided by law. PASSSD AND ADOPTED on this lOth day of May. A.D. 1965. there being 1 Counoilmen present and 1 C0unol1men voting for the passage and adoption hereof. Mayor ATTEST: City Seoretary AP"'ROI/ED AS Tr) FORM ANi) lEGALITY: City Attorney LEGAL AFFIDAVIT THE STATE OF TEXAS: COUNTY OF TARRANT Before me, the undersigned authority on this day personally appear:ed Ni ta Thurmanknown to me to be a credible perso'n, who first being sworn, deposed and upon her oath said: Bookeeper Mid-Cities News Texan That she is the of the , a newspaper which has been regularly and continuously published and of general circulaticm. -in the City/Town of Hurst , for a period of more than one year next preceding the first publication of the attached Legal Notice and that he caused said notice to be published in said newspaper on the following date/s. 5-21-65 That the attached is a true and correct copy of said notice as pub- lished on said date/s in said Mid-Cities Daily News Texan Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the~day of~~ 1~6.L. 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