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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, BEING ORDINANCE NO.
3011, AS AMENDED, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX "A" OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING
SECTION 1, "DEFINITIONS", BY ADDING DEFINITIONS OF "SHOOTING
GALLERY" AND "SHOOTING RANGE", PROVIDING THAT THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING A PENALTY
CLAUSE; 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
Section 1, "Definitions", of Ordinance No 3011, the Comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth, as amended, is hereby amended by adding
definitions of "shooting gallery" and "shooting range", as follows:
SHOOTING GALLERY: An area used for target practice by use of a firearm
other than one used for or with live ammunition and for the sole purpose of
amusement, games of chance or other arcade type activity
SHOOTING RANGE. An area used for the discharge of firearms using live
ammunition, including target, silhouette, skeet, trap, black powder, self-
defense or similar recreational and/or professional shooting.
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 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and such Code are hereby repealed.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 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
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 4.
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 Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000 00) for
each offense. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a
separate offense
SECTION 5.
All rights and remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, are expressly saved
as to any and all violations of the provisions of Ordinance No 3011 or any other
ordinances affecting zoning which have accrued at the time of the effective date of
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this ordinance, and, as to such accrued violations and all pending litigation, both
civil and criminal, whether pending in court or not, under such ordinances, same
shall not be affected by this ordinance but may be prosecuted until final disposition
by the courts.
SECTION 6.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby authorized to
publish this ordinance in pamphlet form for general distribution among the public,
and the operative provisions of this ordinance as so published shall be admissible
in evidence in all courts without further proof than the production thereof, as
provided in Chapter XXV, Section 3, of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, Texas.
SECTION 7
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby directed to
publish the caption, penalty clause and effective date 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 8.
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.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
it Attorney
Date: `1 11 ~ S S ~
ADOPTED: S ~ t F S ~--
EFFECTIVE: