HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 33 Providing for licensing of Junk and Scrap businessesORDINANCE NO. 33
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
OF JUNK AND SCRAP BUSINESSES WITHIN THE
CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE,
TEXAS; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
-WHEREAS 'the accumulation and storage of certain
items of scrap and junk including unserviceable or second-
hand automobiles purchased for the purpose of being dis-
mantled, within the Limits of the Town will create a nuisance
and a hazard to the public health and welfare and the Board
of Aldermen have determined that it is proper for the govern-
ment of the Town and in the best interest of the public
health and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town
to promulgate certain procedures for the lawful licensing
of such businesses.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF
ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS:
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, ac-
quire or receive for storage from the general public and
accumulate or store on property within the Limits of the
Town for the purpose of resale or dismantling and resale
any scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap
lead, scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their al-
loys, bones, rags, cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles,
old cotton, mechanical garden tools, utensils, dismantled
or used plumbing fixtures, appliances or parts, dismantled
gas fixtures, fittings, pipes, dismantled or used water
heaters or parts, used hoses, harnesses or glass, or any
character of unserviceable building or building materials
or unserviceable or secondhand automobiles, including un-
serviceable or used parts and accessories, unless such
person shall have first obtained a license from the Board
of Aldermen of the Town of Westlake, Texas, after a public
hearing for which written notice thereof shall have been
published for at least two weeks prior to such hearing by
being posted at the usual places where notices of elections
for the Town of Westlake have been heretofore posted, which
license shall contain such proper regulations and safe-
guards to be observed by the licensee, including the pay-
ment of a proper licensing fee, as the Board of Aldermen
upon such hearing shall deem necessary to protect the
public health and general welfare of the inhabitants of
the Town.
2.
Any person who shall violate any of the provi-
sions of this Ordinance, or shall fail to comply therewith
or with any of the requirements thereof, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and any such person upon receipt
of written notice from the Mayor of the Town specifying
such person's violation of or failure to comply with this
Ordinance shall be liable to a fine, and upon conviction
of any violation shall be fined in any sum of not more
than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); and each day any such
violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a
separate and distinct offense.
3.
This Ordinance shall become effective and be in
full force and effect from and after its passage and ap-
proval by the Mayor and duly attested by the Town Secretary,
and shall be enforceable after publication as prescribed by
the laws of the State of Texas.
ADOPTED this c;;day of January, A. D. 1965.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COU14TY OF TARRANT
TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS
I, A. L. ODOM, Town Secretary of the Town of
Westlake, TeXas, do hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 33, duly presented
and adopted by the Board of Aldermen of said Town of Westlake,
Teas, at a meeting held on the o2 day of January, 1965,
U -- s- meeting, as same appears in the minutes of said ng, in Book No. 2,
Pages 300-301.
WITNESS MY HAND AND 3L OF THE 'AN OF WESTLATCH,
TEXAS, this the day of , 1965.
NOTICE OF ADO°TION OF ORDINANCES
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTIES OF
TARRANT AND DENTON
TOWN OF WESTLAY—E
I, JOHN A. MCGuIRE, Mayor of the Town of
Westlake, Texas, by virtue of the power vested in me
by law do hereby publish this notice of the adoption
by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Westlake on
January 2, 1965 of Ordinances No. 32, No. 33, No. 34
and No. 35, certified copies of each of which are
attached hereto; and do hereby direct and instruct
the Marshal to post for at least ten (10) days a
properly executed copy of this notice with the attached
certified copies of Ordinances in the three public
places within the Town where notices of elections for
the Town of Westlake have heretofore been posted.
SIGNED AND EXECUTED this 5th day of January,
Town of Westlake, Texas
ATTEST:
A.L. Odom, Town Secretary
NOTICE. OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUN12IES OF
TARR9QT AND DENTON
TOWN OF WESTLAKE
I, JOHN A. McGUIRE, Mayor of the Town of
Westlake, Texas, by virtue of the power vested in me
by law do hereby publish this notice of the adoption
by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Westlake on
January 2, 1965 of Ordinances No. 32, No. 33, No. 34
and No. 35, certified copies of each of which are
attached hereto; and do hereby direct and instruct
the Marshal to post for at least ten (10) days a
properly executed copy of this notice with the attached
certified copies of Ordinances in the three public
places within the Town where notices of elections for
the Town of Westlake have heretofore been posted.
SIGNED AND EXECUTED this 5th day of January,
1965.
V1llY n. 1'iVU V Jlw, ++u.y yr
own of Westlake, Texas
ATTEST:
A.L. Odom, Town Secretary
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TARRANT
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary
Public in and for Tarrant County, Texas, personally ap-
peared WESLEY HARVEY, known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed hereto and to be a credible person in
all respects, who after being by me duly sworn upon oath,
deposes and says:
"That I am the duly qualified and act-
ing Marshal of the Town of Westlake,
Texas, and on the day of January,
1965, I posted in the manner as by law
provided, three (3) Notices of the
Adoption of Ordinances No. 32, No. 33,
No. 34 and No. 35 in the following
three public places within the Limits
of the Town of Westlake, Texas:
1. McGuire Ranch Gate- on Dove Road.
2. Grapevine Ranch Gate on Dove Road.
3. Circle T Ranch Gate on State Highway 114."
WITNESS MY HAND this l% day of January, 1965.
" W SEY RVEY
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO Before Me this A day
of January, 1965, to certify which WITNESS MY HAND AND
SEAL OF OFFICE.
Notary Public in and for Tarran.
County, Texas
My Commission expires:
. June 1, 1965