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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 14759y'~.. ~ f.~ ORDINANCE NO / ~~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 35, WATER AND SEWERS, BY AMENDING SECTION 35-70.5 RELATED TO THE COLLECTION OF IMPACT FEES, MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH. SECTION 1. That Section 35-70.5(a) of Chapter 35, Water and Sewers, of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby amended to be and read as follows "Sec. 35-70 5 Computation and collection of impact fees. (a) The impact fees due for the new development shall be collected as follows. 1) for land located within the city hmrts, at the time that the building permit is issued, or 2) for property platted outside of the city limits, at the time an application for an individual meter connection to the to the city's water or wastewater system is filed." 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 this ordinance are m direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinance and such Code, m which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed.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 Junsdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation m this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. ,,, . ~. ~fR K SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon adoption. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY Assistant Ci Attorney Adopted. ~~ ~ Effective ,~,.. r City of Fort Worth, Texas ~1-~A~a~ And Caunc~l C,a~»mun~cAt~ian DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG.NAME PAGE 8/28/01 **G-13357 12TIME 1 of 1 SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-70 5 OF THE CITY CODE RELATED TO THE TIME FOR THE COLLECTION OF IMPACT FEES RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance amending Section 35-70 5 of the City Code relating to the time for the collection of impact fees. DISCUSSION Chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code was amended in the last legislative session to require the collection of impact fees as follows. a) For land located within the City limits, at the time that the building permit is issued, or b) For property platted outside of the City limits, at the time an application for an individual meter connection to the City's water or wastewater system is filed The adoption of this ordinance will conform the City Code to the requirements of the new legislation FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION The Finance Director certifies that this action will have no material effect on City funds CB n Submitted for City Manager's FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY Office by: (to) ~~ Charles Boswell 8511 ~~~ U~~iL Originating Department Head: BUG 28 2®0~ David Yett 7606 (from) ~ ~~ ~~ ~v t ~- J Additional Information Contact: ~ 2 1;iY~ ~cre4ar f th p o e David Yett 7606 Adopted Or'din~`rt1~f ~~~ •~