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Ord. 0443-01 (A) 2014-10-27ORDINANCE NO. 443-1 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas, amending Chapter 30, Article III, Sewers, of the City of Pearland Code of Ordinances, for the; having a savings clause, a severability clause, and a repealer clause; providing for publication, codification, and an effective date. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS: Section 1. That Chapter 30, Article III, Sewers, of the City of Pearland Code of Ordinances, is hereby amended, to read as follows: Section 30-65. Compliance with existing authority. (a) Unless exception is granted by the approving authority, the public sanitary sewer system shall be used by all persons discharging; (1) Wastewater; (2) Industrial waste; (3) Polluted liquids. (b) Unless authorized by the Texas Commission on Environmental QualityTexas ter Resource, no person may deposit or discharge any waste included in subsection (a) of this section on public or private property or into or adjacent to any: (1) Natural outlet; (2) Watercourse; (3) Storm sewer; (4) Other area within the jurisdiction of the city. (c) The approving authority shall verify, prior to discharge, that any waste authorized to be discharged will receive suitable treatment within the provisions of laws, regulations, ordinances, rules and orders of federal. state and local governments. The approving authority shall have the discretion to authorize discharges of waste that exceed the allowable concentrations contained in this Chapter if the approving authority determines that such ORDINANCE NO. 443-1 discharges will not negatively impact City facilities, processes or equipment, and that the discharges do not create a hazard to life or health, or create a public nuisance. Section 2. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200). Section 3. Savings. All rights and remedies which have accrued in favor of the City under this Chapter and amendments thereto shall be and are preserved for the benefit of the City. Section 4. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid, unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct, and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. Section 5. Codification. It is the intent of the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas, that the provisions of this ordinance shall be codified in the City's official Code of Ordinances as provided hereinabove. Section 6. Publication and Effective Date. The City Secretary shall cause this ordinance, or its caption and penalty, to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Pearland, upon passage of such ordinance. The ordinance shall then become effective ten (10) days from and after its publication, or the publication of its caption and penalty, in the official City newspaper. 2 ORDINANCE NO. 443-1 Section 7. Declaration of Emergency. The Council finds and determines that the need to regulate the proliferation of junked vehicles inures to the benefit of the public and, therefore, bears directly upon the health, safety and welfare of the citizenry; and that this ordinance shall be adopted as an emergency measure, and that the rule requiring this ordinance to be read on two (2) separate occasions be, and the same is hereby waived. PASSED and APPROVED ON FIRST READING this the 13th day of October, A.D.. 2014. ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Crr DARRIN M. COKER CITY ATTORNEY 3 TOM REID MAYOR ! ma's V.: /1'11111111%0\N ORDINANCE NO. 443-1 PASSED and APPROVED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING this the 27th day of October, A. D., 2014. UNG ITY S cV RETARY APPROVED AS TO FORM DARRIN M. COKER CITY ATTORNEY 4 TOM REID MAYOR VOTING RECORD SECOND AND FINAL READING October 27, 2014 Voting "Aye" — Councilmembers, Carbone, Sherman. Hill, Ordeneaux and Moore. Voting "No" - None. Motion passes 5 to 0. PUBLICATION DATE: EFFECTIVE DATE. October 30, 2014 November 9, 2014 PUBLISHED AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 3.10 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BRAZORIA Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for said County and State. Buzz Crainer, Representative for Brenda Miller Fergerson, Publisher of the Pearland Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Brazoria, State of Texas. Who being duly sworn, states under oath that the report of Legal Notice, a true copy of Which is hereto annexed was published in said newspapers in its issue(s) of October 30, 2014. Sworn to and subscribed before me this Notary Public My commission expires on ublisher's Representative V day of ) 6V . ,2014. 1.17 )(a ORDINANCE NO. 443-1 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas, amending Chapter 30, Article III, Sewers, of the City of Pearland Code of Ordinances, for the; having a savings clause, a severability clause, and a repealer clause; providing for publication, codification, and an effective date. Section 2. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200). PASSED and APPROVED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING this the 27't' day of October, A. D., 2014. ATTEST YOUNG LORFING. TRMC CITY SECRETARY APPROVED AS TO FORM i$r TOM REID MAYOR ygiingigsgaufsgrigAtizENN.L6DitG OcTobar 27 2414 Vo9 9 •Aye• . CouncrHTem Den. Carbone. Sherman Ordeneaux oar Moore. Voting No • None. MDDon passe 5 to 0 PUBLICATION DATE October 30. 2014 EFFECTIVE DATE, November 9. 2014 DARRIN M. COKER PUBLISHED AS REOUIRED BY SECTION 310 CITY ATTORNE OF THE CHARTER Of THE CITY OF PEARIAND. TEXAS