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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 3011, AS AMENDED, THE
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX A OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
FORT WORTH (1.986), AS AMENDED BY AMENDING THE USE REGULATION
PROVISIONS OF: SECTION 8, "E-R" RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL
DISTRICT, BY DELETING CERTAIN USES AND ADDING CERTAIN USES,
SECTION 9, "E" COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, BY DELETING CERTAIN USES
AND ADDING CERTAIN USES, SECTION 9A, "F-R" RESTRICTED COMMER-
CIAL DISTRICT, BY ADDING CERTAIN USES, SECTION 10, "F"
COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, BY ADDING CERTAIN USES; SECTION 13, "I"
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT BY ADDING CERTAIN USES, PROVIDING
THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERA-
BILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY, PROVIDING FOR
ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN
PAMPHLET FORM, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN THE OFFICIAL
NEWSPAPER, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Ordinance No. 3011, as amended, be amended by revising Section 8,
"E-R" Restricted Commercial District, Subsection A, "Use Regulations", by delet-
ing blood banks and adding Day Care Nurseries and or schools, such subsection to
read as follows:
"A. Use Regulations
In the "E-R" Restricted Commercial District, no building or land
shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected,
reconstructed, altered or enlarged unless otherwise provided in
this ordinance, except for one or more of the following uses.
1. Any uses permitted in the "D-HR2" Multi-Family High-Rise
District except that residential uses are allowed only as
part of a mixed use structure.
2. Auto parking areas, when in full and complete compliance with
the following conditions.
a) Limited to passenger automobiles only,
b) The restrictions for Auxiliary Parking (Sec. 19-A-12)
shall apply;
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c) A curb or bumper shall be placed along the perimeter of
the parking area at locations which will prevent
vehicles from extending into the required front yard,
into an abutting alley, beyond the property line, or
from damaging the walls or shrubs screening it from
residential property,
d) The required front yard shall not be graveled or hard-
surfaced but shall be maintained as open or landscaped
green space; and
e) A sidewalk shall be constructed to city specifications
abutting the front line of the parking lot and between
the lot and the property line of the nearest intersect-
ing commercial street.
3. Barber and beauty shops.
4. Book or stationery stores, or newsstands.
4A. Care Facilities.
5. Cleaning, pressing and laundry collection offices.
6. Custom dressmaking or millinery shops.
7. Day Care Nurseries or schools..
8. Drug store and the following health service facilities:
clinics, office of dentists, doctors and other practitioners
of the healing arts licensed or similarly recognized under
the laws of the State of Texas; offices for specialists in
supportive therapy, podiatry and psychological testing and
counseling; dental, medical and optical laboratories,
ambulance dispatch stations; prescription pharmacies, and
offices, stores and display rooms for the sale and rental of
medical supplies and equipment.
9. Grocery stores and meat markets.
10. Hospitals and clinics.
11. Offices.
12. Photograph, portrait or camera shops and photo finishing.
13. Attached on-premise signs, provided
a) such signs shall be fastened flat against the wall,
b) no sign shall be illuminated between the hours of ten
(10 00) p.m. and six (6.00) a.m.,
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c) the sign shall cover no more than fifteen percent (15%)
of the area of the wall or facade, including doors and
windows, on which the sign is placed, nor shall it
extend above the roof line or parapet wall of the
building;
d) roof signs are prohibited.
14. Studios for artists.
15. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of
the above uses including air conditioners, ice and refrigerat-
ing plants purely incidental to the main activity permitted
on the premises. No accessory use shall be construed to
permit the keeping of articles or materials in the open or
outside the building.
16. The above specified stores, shops or business shall be retail
establishments exclusively, selling merchandise, excluding
the sale of alcoholic liquors, beer, brandy, spirits, whiskey
or wine, and conducted wholly within an enclosed building.
Each store, shop or business shall not exceed twenty-five
hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area. No drive-in or
curb services shall be permitted.
17. Special exception uses when authorized by the Board of Adjust-
ment under provisions of Section 20."
SECTION Z.
That Ordinance No. 3011, as amended, be further amended by revising
Section 9, "E" Commercial District, Subsection A, "Use Regulation" by deleting,
self-service car wash, automobile sales and rentals, full-service service
stations, and ice houses, and adding, apartment hotels, commercial parking
areas, certain firewood sales, fur storage and sales, retail furniture sales,
interior decorating, opticians, retail sales with gasoline sales, certain
sandwich shops, and used clothing, such subsection to read as follows•
"A. Use Regulations
In the "E" Commercial District, no building or land shall be used
and no building shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, altered
or enlarged unless otherwise provided in this ordinance, except
for one or more of the following uses:
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1. Any uses permitted on the "E-R" Restricted Commercial
District.
2. Apartment hotels.
3. Attached and detached on-premise signs.
4. Off-premise signs, subject to "S" Overlay Zoning classifica-
tion.
5. Antique shops.
6. Auditoriums, theaters, moving picture shows, having a seating
capacity for not more than one thousand five hundred (1,500)
people.
7. Bakeries, provided that the floor area does not exceed three
thousand (3,000} square feet.
8. Banks.
9. Baths, turkish and similar massage and health treatments.
10. Bicycles and bicycle repair shops.
11. Bird stores, pet shops, taxidermist shops or aquarium.
12. Blueprinting or photostating.
13. Business colleges, or private schools operated as commercial
enterprise.
14. Caterer or wedding service.
15. Christmas tree sales.
16. Cigar or tobacco sales.
17. Cleaning, dyeing and pressing works, laundry and washaterias,
provided that the floor area does not exceed three thousand
(3,000) square feet for separate on combined uses.
18. Commercial parking areas.
19. Confectionary stores.
20. Dancing schools.
21. Delicatessen shops.
22. Department stores..
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23. Dog and cat hospitals, or small animal hospitals, if
conducted wholly within a completely enclosed soundproofed
and air-conditioned building, provided, that noise or odors
created by activities within the building shall not be per-
ceptible beyond the property line, and that no animals are
kept outside the building at any time.
24. Drive-in business, where car service is given, including
refreshment stands, cafes, restaurants, food stores, and
similar activities, but not including drive-in businesses
selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.
25. Drug stores.
26. Dry goods and notions stores.
27. Duplicating service, by mimeographing, multigraphing and
offset printing, provided that the floor area does not exceed
two thousand (2,000) square feet..
28. Electrical and gas appliances and supply sales, electrical
and gas repair and installation services when limited to
small shops, the principal business of which is a neighbor-
hood service.
29. Firewood sales if conducted wholly within a building.
30. Florists or gift shops.
31. Frozen food lockers for individual or family use, not includ-
ing the processing of food except cutting or wrapping.
32. Fur storage and sales.
33. Garages, storage only.
34. Hardware, paint and wallpaper stores.
35. Household and office furniture, furnishings and appliances.
36. Interior decorating.
37. Jewelry stores, optical goods.
38. Liquor or package stores..
39. Golf course including miniature course, driving tee, driving
range, and "Pitch 'n' Putt" course.
40. Mortuaries, funeral homes and undertakers.
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41. Museum, library, fine art center, and similar cultural
facilities.
42. Nursery yards or buildings for retail sales, provided that
all incidental equipment and supplies including fertilizer
and empty containers are kept within a building.
43. Offices.
44. Opticians.
Pawnshops, subject to the restrictions contained in Section
18.
46. Piano stores, musical instruments and supplies.
47. Plumbing and heating appliances and supply sales, and
plumbing and heating repairs and installation services, when
limited to small shops, the principal business of which is a
neighborhood service.
48. Radio and television sales and servicing.
49. Recreational vehicle parks provided that they are constructed
and developed in conformance with Ordinance No. 6372.
50. Restaurants, cafes, cafeterias. including restaurants and
cafes legally authorized (by duly issued permits from the
City and State) to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption
on the premises. The terms restaurants, cafes, used herein,
refers to places which are regularly open in a bonafide
manner, which are used and kept open for the service of food
to customers for compensation, which have suitable seating
for guests, which have suitable facilities for preparation
and service of an assortment of foods commonly ordered at
various hours of the day or night and the serving of food is
the primary business of such places, and which may, as an
ancillary use, provide patrons with space for dancing or
permit patrons to dance.
51. Retail furniture sales.
52. Retail sales with gasoline sales.
53. Sandwich shops.
54. Shoe-shine parlors.
55. Commercial swimming pools subject to the following
conditions:
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a) Such swimming pool shall not exceed five thousand (5,000)
square feet in area measured at the scum gutter..
b) No pool shall be closer than one hundred (100) feet from
a Dwelling District.
c) The area of all accessory buildings shall not exceed
fifty (50) percent of the pool area, with a minimum of
six hundred (600) square feet allowable.
d) Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in the mini-
mum ratio of one (1) off-street parking space to each two
hundred (200) square feet of pool area or fraction
thereof, and the parking arrangements shall have the
approval of the City Traffic Engineer.
56. Tailor, clothing or wearing apparel shops.
57. Used clothing.
58. Variety stores.
59. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of
the above uses, including air conditioning, ice and refrigera-
ting plants purely incidental to amain activity permitted on
the premises. No accessory use shall be construed to permit
the keeping of articles or material in the open or on the
outside of the building.
60. Special exception uses when authorized by the Board. of Adjust-
ment under the provisions of Section 20."
SECTION 3.
That Ordinance No. 3011, as amended, be further amended by revising
Section 9A, "F-R" Restricted Commercial District, Subsection A, "Use Regula-
tions", by adding blood banks, self-service car wash, full-service
service stations, retail auto parts supply, boat sales, burglar alarm sales
and service, gunsmithing repairs and sales, locksmith, and saddle and harness
repair and sales; such subsection to read as follows:
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"A. Use Regulations
In the "F-R" Restricted Commercial District, no building or land
shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, recon-
structed, altered or enlarged unless otherwise provided in this
ordinance, except for one or more of the following uses:
1. Any uses permitted in the "E" Commercial District, except
that the sale of alcoholic beverages is excluded.
2. Auditoriums, theaters, moving picture houses.
3. Automobile, motorcycle and trailer sales, or sales or rental
areas .
4. Blood banks.
5. Boat sales.
6. Bowling alleys, if conducted wholly within a completely
enclosed building provided such building shall be so
constructed and operated that noise or vibration created by
activities within the building shall not be perceptible
beyond the property line.
7. Burglar alarm sales and service.
8. Bus stations.
9. Commercial and business clubs.
10. Express offices.
11. Feed stores, no processing, milling.
12. Garages, public for repairs of automobiles, and paint and
body shops for automobiles, subject to the following.
a) All repairs and paint and body work must be conducted
within a building.
b) All inoperable automobiles upon which repairs or paint
and body work is to be conducted shall be enclosed
behind a six (6) foot screening fence.
c) No painting or body or fender repair shall be conducted
on any premises that adjoin the side or rear of any
residential zoning district.
d) No automobile repair facility shall be permitted to have
bay doors facing an "A" One-Family, "A-R" Residential,
"B" Two-Family, "R-1" or "R-2" Residential District.
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13. Gunsmithing, repairs and sales.
14. Heating supplies and appliances.
15. Hotels and motels subject to the restrictions contained in
Section 18.
16. Leather and leather goods shops.
17. Locksmith.
18. Medical care facilities; nursing and care homes, hospitals
with their related facilities and supportive retail and
personal service uses operated by or under the control of the
hospital primarily for the convenience of patients, staff and
visitors.
19. Mini-Warehouses.
20. Newspaper distribution centers subject to the following•
a) Maximum size of 20,000 square feet,
b) Must be screened from abutting residential properties
within a minimum 6-foot high screening fence.
21. Printing, small job printing shops, provided that the floor
area shall not exceed two thousand (2,000} square feet.
22. Retail auto parts supply.
23. Saddle andlor harness repair and sales.
24. Self-service and Full-service car wash facilities subject to
the following.
a) All washing facilities shall be completely within an
enclosed building.
b) Vacuuming facilities may be outside the building but
shall not be in the front yard and shall not be closer
than twenty-five (25) feet from any residential
district.
c) The building surfaces shall be faced with masonry,
porcelainized steel, baked enamel steel or other
material equal in durability and appearance.
d) The building shall not be less than one hundred (100)
feet from any residential district.
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e) The building shall set back not less than twenty-five
(25) feet from the front property line.
f) Off-street parking shall be provided on the property
in the ratio of not less than three (3) parking spaces
for each washing stall, or five (5) parking spaces for
each automobile which may be accommodated on the washing
line within the full-service building.
g) All off-street parking areas shall be hard-surfaced
and dust-free.
h) Any lights used to illuminate the area shall be directed
away from adjacent residential properties.
i) A permanent screening fence or wall not less than six
(6) feet in height shall be constructed along any site
property line which abuts property zoned for residential
use.
25. Service Stations, Full-Service for minor repairs of automo-
biles, and lubrication, oil changes and other maintenance
services, subject to the following.
a) All repairs must be conducted within an enclosed
building;
b) All inoperable automobiles upon which repairs are to be
conducted shall be enclosed behind a six (6) foot screen-
ing fence;
c} No repairs shall be conducted on any premises that
adjoin the side or rear of any residential zoned
district;
d ) No automob i 1 e repai r or service faci 1 ity shal l be
permitted to have bay doors facing an "A" One-Family,
"A-R" Residential, "B" Two-Family, "R-1" or "R-2"
Residential District.
26. Softball Parks, including stadium and concession stands.
27. Taxicab stands.
28. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the
above. No accessory use shall be construed to permit the keep-
ing of articles or material in the open or outside the build-
ing.
29. Special exception uses when authorized by the Board of Adjust-
ment under the provisions of Section 20."
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SECTION 4.
That Ordinance 3011, as amended, be further amended by revising
Section 10, "F" Commercial District, Subsection A, "Use Regulations" by
adding amusement arcades, furniture upholstery, resale and/or refinishing,
used furniture sales with restrictions, health or recreation clubs, recording
studios, teenage clubs or amusement centers, such subsection to read as follows•
"A Use Regulations
In the "F" Commercial District, no building or land shall be used
and no building shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, altered
or enlarged unless otherwise provided in this ordinance, except
for one or more of the following uses.
1. Any uses permitted in the "E" Commercial or "F-R" Restricted
Commercial Districts.
2. Amusement enterprises, including arcades, bars, beer gardens,
cocktail lounges, drive-ins, lounges, night clubs, taverns,
billiards or pool halls, bowling alleys, dance halls, shoot-
ing galleries, skating rinks and similar commercial recrea-
tion activities if conducted wholly within a completely
enclosed building.
3. Drive-in business, including refreshment stands, cafes,
restaurants, food stores, and similar activities for the sale
of alcoholic beverages on the premises.
4. Furniture upholstery, resale, and refinishing..
5. Health or recreation clubs.
6. Recording studios.
7. Sexually Oriented Businesses (as defined in Section 18A).
8. Teenage clubs and amusement centers.
9. Used furniture sales conducted entirely within a building.
10. Special exception uses when authorized by the Board of
Adjustment under the provisions of Section 20."
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11. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to the
above. No accessory use shall be construed to permit the
keeping of articles or material in the open or outside the
building.
SECTION 5.
That Ordinance 3011, as amended be further amended by revising
Section 13, "I" Light Industrial District, Subsection A, "Use Regulations",
by adding firewood sales with a certain restriction, and truck stop with fuel
and accessory services, and used furniture sales with a certain restriction;
such subsection to read as follows
"A. Use Regulations
1. Any uses permitted in the "H" Business District except
apartments.
2. One dwelling unit when apart of a business.
3. Amusement or baseball parks.
4. Assaying (other than gold or silver}.
5. Automobile, Truck and heavy equipment laundry and steam
cleaning.
6. Automated Collection Vending Machines for recycling cans,
bottles, etc.
7. Bakeries - wholesale.
8. Blacksmithing, horse-shoeing or wagon shops.
9. Body and fender work for automobiles and house trailers.
10. Bottling works, soft drinks.
11. Building material storage yards.
i2. Candy, canning or preserving factories.
13. Carnivals.
14. Carpet and rug cleaning.
15. Cereal mills.
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16. Chicken batteries or brooders.
17. Cleaning, dying, pressing works, laundry and washateria.
18. Coffee roasting.
19. Coal, coke or wood yards.
20. Cold Storage plants.
21. Contractor's or storage yards.
22. Cooperage works.
23. Dog and cat hospitals, and kennels, when not less than one
hundred (100) feet from an "A" One-Family, "B" Two-Family,
"C-R", "C" or "D" Multi-Family District.
24. Electroplating..
25. Firewood sales when displayed and conducted entirely
outdoors..
26. Furniture repair.
27. Galvanizing, small utensils, etc.
28. Ice plants or storage houses.
29. Lumber yards.
30. Machine shops, provided power not to exceed fifty (50) horse-
power is employed in the operation of any one machine.
31, Manufacture of:
Products from aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, steel, tin or
other metals and from bone, leather, paper, rubber, shell,
wire, or wood, of any kind other than those enumerated under
Districts "J" Light Industrial or"K" Heavy Industrial,
provided power not to exceed fifty (50) horsepower is
employed in the operation of any one machine.
32. Manufacture of-
Artificial flowers, ornaments, awnings, tents, and bags,
blacking, cleaning or polishing preparations, boats (small)
twenty-eight (28) feet or less in length, brooms or brushes,
buttons and novelties, canvas products, clothing, suits,
coats, or dresses for wholesale trade, food products, syrups,
fruit juices, extracts, drugs or medicine, except products
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classified under Districts "J" Light Industrial or "K" Heavy
Industrial, furniture, gas or electric fixtures, ice cream,
mattresses or their renovation, peanut and pecan products,
potato chips, radio and television sets, signs, including
electric, provided power not in excess of fifty (50) horse-
power is employed in the operation of any one machine..
33. Meat processing (no slaughtering).
34. Milk bottling or central distribution stations.
35. Monument or marble works, finishing and carving only.
36. Motor vehicle junk yard or storage yard, or used automobile
junk area, as a special exception upon approval of the Board
of Adjustment after a report from the police, health, public
works, and fire departments, subject to the following
limitations:
a) Said area shall not adjoin the side or rear of any
residential zoning district.
b) Said area must be completely enclosed by a six (6) foot
screening fence.
c) First approval - a period not to exceed five years.
d) First extension - a period not to exceed three years.
e) Each subsequent extension - a period not to exceed two
years.
Extensions of time shall each be subject to the same applica-
tion, report and hearing procedures as the original approval..
37. Paper box manufacture.
38. Pattern shops.
39. Printing, lithographing, bookbinding, newspapers and
publishing.
40. Sheet metal shops using sheet metal of sixteen (16} gauge, or
thinner.
41. Spray painting or paint mixing.
42. Stables, public or riding, when not less than one hundred
(100) feet from an "A" One-Family, "B" Two-Family, "C-R", "C"
or "D" Multi-Family District.
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43. Stone monument works.
44. Storage in bulk of, or warehouse for, commodities and
materials enumerated in districts "E-R" Restricted Commercial
through "I" Light Industrial, provided that they comply with
fire ordinance number 2470.
45. Terminals -freight, rail or water.
46. Terminal, motor freight - on approval of the Building
Commissioner after a recommendation by the City Traffic
Engineer and provided that such motor freight terminals shall
meet the following requirements:
a) A traffic flow plan approved by the City Traffic Engi-
neer, based on an accurate plot plan drawn to scale. The
applicant shall prepare and submit the plot plan to the
City Traffic Engineer.
b) Loading, parking and maneuvering space shall be entirely
on private property.
c) The operation of any such motor freight terminal shall
be not less than two hundred (200) feet from an "A" One-
Family, "B" Two-Family, "C-R", "C" or "D" Multi-Family
District.
47. Tracks - team, spur, loading or storage; and freight yards.
48. Truck stop with fuel and accessory services.
49. Used or new furniture, with outside storage or display.
50. Veterinary hospitals.
51. Welding shops, custom work, not including structural welding.
52. Wholesale produce market or wholesale houses.
53. Electric Power Substation.
54. Off-premise signs, subject to "S" overlay zoning classifica-
tion.
55. Any similar uses not included in District "J" Light Indus-
trial and "K" Heavy Industrial which are not noxious or offen-
sive because of odors, smoke, dust, noise, fumes or vibra-
tions.
56. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the
above."
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SECTION 6.
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 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.
SECTION 7.
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.
SECTION 8.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, omits,
neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists the enforcement of any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) for each offense. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 9.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby author-
ized to publish this ordinance in pamphlet form for general distribution among
the public, and the operative provisions of this ordinance as so published shall
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be admissible in evidence in all courts without further proof than the produc-
tion thereof, as provided in Chapter XXV, Section 3, of the Charter of the City
of Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION 10.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to
engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption and Sections 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 8, 11 and 12 in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the
ordinance in the ordinance records of the City.
SECTION 11.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby
directed to publish the caption and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11 and 12 of this
ordinance for two (2) days in the official newspaper of the City of Fort Worth,
Texas, as authorized by Section 52.013, Texas Local Government Code.
SECTION 12.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and publication as required by law, and it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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