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ORDINANCE N0. D
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE VII, "CODE OF
ETHICS", OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
{1986), AS AMENDED, BY CHANGING SECTION 2-239,
"DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST", TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION
REGARDING CERTAIN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSESS-
MENTS; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULA-
TIVE; PROVIDING 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 I.
That Chapter 2, Article VII, "Code of Ethics", of the Code
of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, be and is
hereby further amended by adding the following new subsection to
Section 2-239, "Disclosure of Interest":
"(d) The provisions of Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)
shall not apply when a city officer, employee or
advisory board member, or the body of which he or she
is a member, is involved in a decision concerning the
levy of a special improvement district assessment
against real property which is owned by a person, group
or business entity in which the city officer, employee
or advisory board member has a substantial interest if:
(1) assessments are levied at a uniform rate
throughout the district; and
(2) such rate is applied to the value of the real
property as shown on current Tarrant
Appraisal District appraisal rolls.
Such city officer, employee or advisory board member
shall not be required to disclose such interest as pro-
vided in Paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) and shall be per-
mitted to vote on and participate in consideration of
the matter."
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SECTION II.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordi-
nances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986),
as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in
direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such
Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances
and such Code are hereby repealed.
III.
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, para-
graphs 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, sen-
tence, paragraph or section.
SECTION IV.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is
hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying
the caption, Section I and the effective date in the minutes of
the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance
records of the City.
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SECTION V.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
C'l/W
City Attorney
Date : 1 ~ ~ 3 ~ ~ ~
ADOPTED : ~~`f ~ ~~,/
EFFECTIVE:
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