O-1987-1533-B - actual date passed 5/21/2007

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section 2. All rights or remedies of the City of La Porte are expressly saved as to any and all violations of this Ordinance or any amendments hereto, or any other ordinance, statute or code, that permits and regulates the subject matter of this Ordinance; and as to such accrued violation, any court shall have all the powers that existed prior to the effective date of this Ordinance. Section 3. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that a sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of this meeting of the City Council was posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of the City for the time required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the Open Meetings Law, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code; and that this meeting has been open to the public as required by law at all times during which this ordinance and the subject matter thereof has been discussed, considered and formally acted upon. The City Council further ratifies, approves and confirms such written notice and the contents and posting thereof. Section 4. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this Ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance, and it is hereby declared to be the intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereto, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid. Section s. Any person, as defined in Section 1.07(27), Texas Penal Code, who shall violate any provision of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished by a fine not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00).