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85-3-Ordinance-Regulations for Tampering with Refuse Container-02/04/1985CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS CI'SECRETARY ORDINANCE NO. 85-3 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 6, SECTION 0-0 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, ENTITLED TAMPERING WITH OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CONTAINERS PROHIBITED; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS: SECTION I THAT CHAPTER 6, SECTION 6-0 OF THE SANGER CODE OF ORDINANCES IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 6-0: TAMPERING WITH OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CONTAINERS PROHIBITED The meddling or tampering with refuse containers or in any way pilfering, scattering contents, or junking in an alley or street within the city is prohibited. No person shall cast, place or deposit any trash, garbage, rubbish refuse, kitchen garbage, dry kitchen refuse or ashes into any residential or commercial refuse container without the effective consent of the owner, tenant, lessee, or occupant of the premises upon which such container is located,, the City of Sanger and any agent with which the City has a contract for the dumping of containers. SECTION II All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION III 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 IV Whenever in this Ordinance an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such Ordinance, the doing of an act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, the violation of any such provision shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars; provided, however, that no penalty shall be greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or similar offense under the laws of the State. Each day any violation of this Ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION V This Ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage and the publication of the caption as the law in such cases provides. PASSED AND APPROVED this day of ' 1985, by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas. ATTEST: APPROVED: - 2 -