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ORDINANCE NO. ~ p U 7
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 19, "HEALTH AND SANITATION",
OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1964), AS AMENDED, PROVIDING
FOR SPECIAL FEES TO BE CHARGED BY THE CITY REGISTRAR OF
VITAL STATISTICS WHEN COMPLING WITH REQUESTS FOR INFORMA-
TION UNDER THE TEXAS OPEN RECORDS ACT; AUTHORIZING PUBLI-
CATION IN PAMPHLET FORM; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE
OF PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVI-
SIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That there be established a Section 19-21.2 of Chapter 19 of
the Code of the City of Fart Worth (1964), as amended, the same to
read and be as follows:
"Sec. 19-21.2 Open Records Act Fees
For all requests for information made pursuant to the
Texas Open Records Act, Article 6252-17a, V.T C.S., where-
in information of an intimate or highly personal nature is
concerned, the City Registrar of Vital Statistics may pro-
duce lists containing non-protected information concerning
births and deaths reported to said Registrar. The City
Registrar of Vital Statistics is entitled to a fee of
twenty cents (20~) per line of information extracted from
such records. The non-protected information extracted from
each individual record shall constitute one line on the
resulting lists."
SECTION 2.
That the City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
authorized to publish this ordinance in pamphlet form for general
distribution among the public, and this ordinance as so published
shall be admissible in evidence in all courts without further proof
than the production of said pamphlet, as provided in Section 3,
Chapter XXV of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth.
SECTION 3.
That this ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of
ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1964), as
amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct
conflict with the provisions of such ordinance and such Code, in
which event such conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such
code are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 4.
That 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, a.nd if any phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared
void, ineffective or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or final
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such voidness, ineffec-
tiveness or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remain-
ing phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this
ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation herein of any such void, ineffec-
tive or unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section.
SECTION 5.
That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after the date of is passage and publication as required by law, and
it is so ordained.
AP ROVED A5 TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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City Attorney
Date: ~ '~ ~ -~ 3
ADOPTED:
EFFECTIVE:
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