HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1977-064 CITY OF GRAPEVINE
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77-64
. An ordinance amending Chapter 10 of the City Code of Grapevine, Texas
pertaining to Wreckers by amending Section 4-10-2 to provide for the Chief of
Police to inspect the equipment and by amending Section 4-10-4 pertaining to
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Insurance Requirements; providing a sevarability clause, providing a penalty and
declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE,
TEXAS. .
Section I. That Chapter 10, Section 4-10-2 (A) is hereby amended ta read
as follows: "4-10-2, Approval List, " (�►) Afterapplication is made, the Chief of Police
shall inspect the equipment of the company making the application and shall classify
that equipment according to the stnndards and specifications as set out herein. The
Chief of Police shall notify all appl icants complying with the provisions of this Chapter
that their name has been placed on the approval list. Applicants not complying wifih
provisior�s of this Chapter shall be notified in writing stating the reason for the rejection
of fihe application. The Chief of Police shall have the right to inspect the equipment
�' of all companies providing wrecker service under the provisions of this Chapter. Said
inspection shal I be made at any and al) reasonable hours and places. The Chief of
Police, after inspection, may authorize the removal of a company's name fram the lisi-
for failure to operate and maintain its equipment in an efficient and good manner.
Section 2. That Secfiion 4-10-4 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"4-10-4 lnsurance", All wrecker companies shall carry sfiandard liability insurance in
limits of not less than the following sums:
(a) For damage arising out of bodily injury or to death of one person in any one
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:� - accident, $�k�0,000.04.
(b) For damage arising out of bodily injury to or death of two (2) or more persons in
'� ° any one accident, $300,000.00.
(c) For injury to or destruction of property in any one accident, $25 000,00.
(d) Al) wrecker companies who have starage yards shall carry sufficient insurance to
cover theft of vandalism from said yard in an amount satisfactory to the City Manager.
Section 3. Savings and SeXerability Clause. If any section, article, paragraph,
sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereto to any
person or circumstances is held invalid or uncor�stitutional by a Court of competent
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jurisciiction such holding sholl not affect the val idity of the remaining portions of the
ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining
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portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall
remain in full force and effect.
Section 4. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shal) be deemed guilty of a misdemeanar and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) and a separate offense shall be
� deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues
after the notice period provided herein has expired. The Court shall order removat and
abatement of the nuisance.
�" '- Section 5. Emergency. The fact that no present ordinances of the City of
Grapevine regulating Wreckers, by amending Section 4-10-2 to provide for the Chief
`�`''p of Police, to inspect the equipment and by amending Section 4-10-4 perfiaining to
Insurance R�quirements , creates an urgency and an emergency and in the preservation
of the publiG health, safety and welfare requires that this ordinance shall take effect
immediately from and after its passage and the publ icafiion of the caption as the law
and charter in such cases provides.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of Grapevine, Texas, this
the 6th day of December , 1977.
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Mayor , Ci y of Grapevine, Texas
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ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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