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ORDINANCE 2025-4054
<br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 106 "ZONING" OF THE CODE OF
<br />ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS BY ADOPTING REGULATIONS
<br />FOR THE SCREENING OF VEHICLES AT AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR BUSINESSES
<br />(NAICS CODE 8111); PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF
<br />THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON
<br />CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED IN A SUM NOT TO EXCEED TWO THOUSAND
<br />DOLLARS; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION HEREOF; AND
<br />PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS,
<br />THAT:
<br />Section 1. Chapter 106, "Zoning," Section 106-310, Table A. Commercial & Industrial Uses,
<br />Footnote 15 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of La Porte, Texas, is hereby
<br />amended by adopting regulations for the screening of vehicles at automotive repair
<br />businesses (NAICS Code 8111), to hereinafter read as follows:
<br />Footnotes:
<br />15 Vehicles parked and/or stored outdoors overnight before or after being serviced must be
<br />screened in compliance with the designated commercial performance standards for outdoor
<br />storage. This restriction does not apply to establishments that maintain an average 1-day
<br />turnaround time such as businesses offering oil changes. Establishments with pre-existing,
<br />nonconforming uses are prohibited from parking and/or storing any vehicle outdoors in locations
<br />visible from a public right-of-way for a duration exceeding fourteen (14) consecutive calendar
<br />Section 2. Any person, as defined in Section 1.07 (27), Texas Penal Code, who shall violate any
<br />provision of the ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
<br />conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS
<br />($2,000.00).
<br />Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the City of La Porte, Texas, in conflict with
<br />any provision contained herein me hereby repealed to the extent of any conflict.
<br />Section 4. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or
<br />clause, of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not
<br />affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance; and it is hereby declared to be the
<br />intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase, or clause,
<br />or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase, or
<br />clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid.
<br />Section 5. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that a sufficient
<br />written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of this meeting of the City Council
<br />was posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of the City for the time
<br />required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the Open Meetings Act, Chapter
<br />551, Texas Government Code; and that this meeting has been open to the public as
<br />required by law at all times during which this ordinance and the subject matter thereof
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