O71-05CITY OF KFNNEDALF ORDINANCE NO. 71-5
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OF MOBILE
SERVICE UNITS, AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE SEC,
9(d), VERNON'S TEXAS PENAL CODE, TATTTHTN-TH7 CORP-
ORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF KENNEDALE, TEXAS: PRO-
VIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF, AND AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, by virtue of Chapter 226, Acts of the 62nd
Legislature, 1971, Regular Session (Art. 1111c-1, Sec 2(d),
Vernon's Texas Penal Code), the Texas Legislature has dele-
gated to the State Board of Insurance the duty to provide rules
and regulations for movement and operation of mobile service
units, expressly reserving to municipalities the right to pro-
hibit mobile service units within their boundaries; and
WHEREAS, in said statute, mobile service units are
defined as vehicles, tank trucks or other mobile devices fro
which flammable liquids, used as motor fuels may, as an act
of retail sale, be dispensed into the fuel tanks of motor ve-
hicles parked on off-street parking facilities; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Kennedale,
Texas, deems it to be in the best interest of the public safe-
ty and welfare of citizens and inhabitants to orohibil- the
operation of such mobile service units within the corporate
boundaries of said City; now, therefore:
RE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENN7DALE, TEXAS:
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corp-
oration to operate any mobile service unit, as defined in the
,sforesaid. statute (Art. 1111c-1, Sec, (d), Vernon's Texas
Pena w;thi„, limits of q-h. City of Kenne-
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dale, Texas, and the op. .Lction of such mobile service units
within the corporate limits of the City of Kennedale Texas,
is hereby expressly prohibited
2This prohibition of operation of such mobile ser-
vice units is meant to ban and make unlawful the dispensing
therefromof any motor fuP1 into the fnel tankq. of motor vehicle
or asan act of retail sal e, This said ordinanqP ---47ncli not be
construed to prohibit the transporting of fuels in mobile
vice units through the City of Kennedale in conformity with
rules and regu3ctions of the State Board of Insurance, so long
;-4Q, nn flammable liquids are sn disoense or said th,,,hfrom
within the City of Kennedale, Texas,
3. Each violation of this ordinance shall be s misds-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, any person, firm or,coroo-
ration so violating same shall be fined in any sum not to exceed
S200.00, for each and every offense.
4. This ordnance shall be in f77.13 forre ,gnd eff,=ct
Immediately upon its passage and publication, as by law provided.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 16th day of August, 1971.
TTEST-7,
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Jewel D. Boyd, city SecretJay
(CITY StAT)
(Spud) Martin, Mayor of the
ty of Kennedale, Texas
THE STATE 07 TEXAS:
COU'''v OF TARRANT
CITY OF KENNED&LE
T, JEWEL D. BOND, City Secretary of the City of
Kennedale, Texas, hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is a true and correct copy of City of Kennedale Ordinance No,
71-5 duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Kennedale,
Texas, at a special meeting thereof on the 16th day of August,
1971, at which meeting a c-uorum was present, as is reflected
by the minutes of said City Council,
TO CERTIkY WHICH witness my hand and the official
seal of the City of Kennedale, Texas, this 16th day of August,
A. D. 1971.
(CITY SEAL)
1-eel D. Boyd, City .reL.ary ot
the City of Kennedie, Texas
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