01-01-10-Ordinance-Itinerant Merchants, Peddlers and Vendors in Public Right of Way areas-01/04/2010ORDINANCE #01-01-10
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXASAMENDING ARTICLE 4.200
"ITINERANT MERCHANTS, PEDDLERS AND VENDORS", SECTION 4.219 IN
CHAPTER 4 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS,
PROVIDING FOi!' THE REPEAL OF ALLORDINANCES Oi ;
PROVIDING q SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR (!' A PENALTY; AND
PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE ly
Section 1. That Chapter 4, Article 4.200, Section 4.219 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Sanger, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4.200 ITINERANT MERCHANTS, PEDDLERS AND VENDORS
Sec. 4.219 Solicitation in Streets and Public Rights of Way
No person shall stand in any public street, highway, roadway, street or road right of way to stop
or attempt to stop a vehicle to engage any person in such vehicle for the purpose of:
(a) Soliciting contributions; or
(b) Selling or attempting to sell any service or thing to any person in any vehicle; or
(c) Handling or attempting to hand to any person in any vehicle any circular, advertisement,
handbill or any political campaign literature, or any sample, souvenir or gift; or
(d) Soliciting or attempting to solicit a ride in such vehicle; or
(e) In any manner attempting to interfere with, impede, slow or stop the normal flow of
vehicular traffic for any other similar purpose
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent of
such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases and words of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
word, 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 portions of this Ordinance, since the
same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance
of any such unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
Section 4. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of
this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance
with the general penalty provision found in Section 1.109 of this Code.
Section 5. This ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage, and
the publication of the caption, as the law and Charter in such cases provide.
PASSED AND APPROVED this / day of � --, 2010 by the City Council of the
City of Sanger, Texas.
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APPROVED:
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Interim City Secretary