ORD 1985-25TOWN OF TROPHY CLUB, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 0 85-25
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF TROPHY CLUB, TEXAS,
REGULATING GRAVEL PITS AND MINING OPERATIONS WITHIN
THE TOWN; REQUIRING THE PROPER ZONING; REQUIRING ALL
OPEN PITS TO BE RECLAIMED; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY AND DECLARING AN EMER-
GENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF TROPHY
CLUB, TEXAS:
Section 1. Gravel pits and mining operations existing on the effective
date of this ordinance are hereby classified as a business and may continue to
operate only upon receipt of a business zoning classification that includes and
encompasses as a principal uses gravel pits and mining operations. Prior to the
passage of a Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, no owner or operator shall
operate a gravel pit or mining operation, including any drilling for minerals,
without either a special zoning permit or a special limited time permit issued
by the Town Council. The Town Council shall establish reasonable and
appropriate zoning and permit fees.
Section 2. All open gravel pits and mining operations left by excavation
of gravel, or other minerals, shall be filled and the land reclaimed within ninety
(90) days after the excavations have ceased. The reclamation shall restore the
land, generally, to the condition and topography it had prior to the excavation.
Section 3. If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or
word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstances is
held invalid or unconstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such
holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance;
and the Town Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining
portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall
remain in full force and effect.
Section 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person to violate any
provision of this ordinance, and any person violating any provision of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to a fine in an amount 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.
Section 5. The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the
Town of Trophy Club, Texas, are inadequate to properly safeguard the health,
safety, morals, peace and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of
Trophy Club, Texas, creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of the
same which requires that this ordinance shall become effective from and after
the date of its passage and it is accordingly so ordained.
1985.
PASSED AND APPROVED on this 14 day of October z
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APPROVEn 4S TO FORM:
Town Attorney
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