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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 33 OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1964), AS AMENDED, WHICH
CHAPTER REGULATES THE USE OF STREETS AND SIDE-
WALKS, BY AMENDING SECTION 33 -2.1, THEREOF TO
PROHIBIT THE DISTRIBUTION BY SALE OR OTHERWISE
OF ANY GOODS, WARES, MERCHANDISE OR THING OF
VALUE, AND THE SOLICITATION OF DONATIONS OF ANY
KIND FROM ANY MEDIAN OR TRAFFIC ISLAND WITHIN
ANY RIGHT -OF -WAY OF ANY STREET; MAKING THIS ORDI-
NANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH
CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 33 -2.1 of Chapter 33 of the Code of the
City of Fort Worth (1964), as amended, be and the same is
hereby amended so that hereafter same shall read and be as
follows:
"SECTION 33 -2.1 Distributing, selling or
soliciting on medians and
traffic islands prohibited.
"It shall be unlawful for any person to dis-
tribute or to sell or offer for sale any
goods, wares, merchandise or thing of value, or to
solicit donations of any kind on any median or
traffic island within any right -of -way for any
street, alley or thoroughfare in the City."
SECTION 2.
That this Ordinance shall be cumulative of all pro-
visions of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1964), as amended.
relative to the distribution, by sale or otherwise of any goods,
wares, merchandise or thing of value, and the solicitation of
donations of any kind from any median or traffic island within
any right-of-way of any street, except in those instances
when the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict
with the provisions of such Code, in which instances said
conflicting provisions of such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
That if any section, part of a section or provis-
ion of any section of this Ordinance shall be held to be
void, ineffective or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, the holding of such section, part of a section
or provision of any section to be void, ineffective or un-
constitutional for any cause whatsoever shall in no way affect
the validity of the remaining sections and provisions of this
Ordinance, which shall remain in full force and effect. The
City Council would not have passed any sections, parts of
sections or provisions of any section of this ordinance that
were unconstitutional, void or ineffective if it had known
that they were unconstitutional, void or ineffective at the
time of adopting this ordinance.
SECTION 4.
That any person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be fined in any
sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), and each
violation thereof shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 5.
That this ordinance shall become effective and
be in full force and effect from and after the date of its
passage and publication as required by law, and it is so
ordained.
City Attorney
Adopted by the City Council September 13, 1976