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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, "ADMINISTRATION", OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS (1986), AS
AMENDED, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 2-189, "RESIDENCY
REQUIREMENTS FOR CITY EMPLOYEES; STANDARDS FOR RESPONSE
BY CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES TO CIVZL EMERGENCIES"; PRO-
VIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PRO-
VIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT
AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 2, "Administration", of the Code of the City of
Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, be and is hereby amended by
adding the following new section:
Sec. 2-189. Residency .Requirements for City
Employees; Standards for Response by
Certain City Employees to Civil
Emergencies.
a) City employees are required to reside within
the United States as a condition of employment.
b) City employees are not required to reside
within the city limits as a condition of employment.
This subsection b) does not prohibit the establishment
of such a residency requirement for:
1) the Mayor, a City Councilmember, a
candidate for Mayor or a candidate for
City Councilmember;
2) the City Manager, City Attorney, City
Secretary, City Auditor or Judges of the
Municipal Courts.
c) City employees who reside outside the city
limits and must respond to a civil emergency are
required to reside at a location which allows them to
respond to such an emergency within thirty minutes.
The response time shall be measured by the time
required for the employee to travel from his or her
residence to the emergency by automobile at posted
speed limits in ordinary weekday traffic.
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d) Subsection c) shall not apply to City
employees who resid outside the city limits and are
hired on or before ~ ~,__, 1992. Employees
who reside outside th city limits and are hired after
such date shall meet he requirements of subsection c)
within six months after they are hired.
e) When the City Manager must fill a job which
is subject to the response time requirements of
Subsection c) but is not reasonably able to find a
person who meets such requirements, the Manager may
grant an exception therefrom. Such exception must be
in writing and signed by the Manager.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of
ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas
(1986), as amended, except where the provisions of the ordinance
are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and
such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordi-
nances and such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, 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 unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall
not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would
have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation
in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or section.
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SECTION 4.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the
caption and effective date in the minutes of the City Council and
by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be in full .force and effect from and
after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
Date : '.S - 5 - °~ d-
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OLICY PROPOSAL
GATE FILE NUMBER SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE CONCERNING PAGE 1 Of?
3~12~92 CP-172 TIME FOR CERTAIN CITY EMPLOYEES TO RESPON
PROPOSAL PROPOSED bY: Cali J^N ^ 's
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Proposal: lJ
It is proposed that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance which prescribes
reasonable standards with respect to the time within which City employees who reside
outside the city limits must respond to a civil emergency.
Discussion:
Section 150.021 of the Texas Local Government Code authorizes cities to prescribe
reasonable standards with respect to the time within which city employees who reside
outside the city limits must respond to a civil emergency. Such standards may not be
imposed retroactively on any person in the employ of a city at the time the standards are
adopted.
It is proposed that emergency response standards be adopted for certain City of Fort Worth
employees who reside outside the city limits. The attached ordinance would establish the
following requirements:
a) City employees who reside outside the city limits and are required to respond to a
civil emergency would have to reside at a location which permits them to respond to
such an emergency within 30 minutes.
b) The response time would be measured by the time required for the employee to travel
from his or her residence to the emergency by automobile at posted speed limits in
ordinary weekday traffic.
c) The ordinance would not apply to persons who are employed by the City when the
ordinance is adopted.
d) Employees who are hired after adoption of the ordinance and reside outside the city
limits would have to comply with the ordinance within six months after they are
hired.
e) The Ci~y Manager could grant written exceptions from the requirements of the
ordinance when he must fill a job and is not reasonably able to find a person who
meets the requirements of the ordinance.
f) The ordinance would not prohibit the City from requiring that elected officials, the
City Manager, City Attorney, City Secretary, City Auditor or Judges of the Municipal
Courts reside within the city limits.
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POLICY PROPOSAL (cont'd)
Legality:
The Citq Attorneq has reviewed this proposal. The proposal is within the powers of th
Citq Council and there are no legal impediments to its implementation.
City Manager's Comments:
The Citq Manager has reviewed this proposal and supports it.
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AP~ROVEp, BYE
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