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AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ALL OF CITAPTM, XI OF THE COLi,ECT�M ORDIIANCES
ENTITLED " CORPORATION COURT" AND SUBSTITUTING THEREFOR TN.IS ORDINANCE
TO BE KN01'vN AS CHAPTE: XI, REVISED " CORPORATION COURT" SECTION 1,
ESTABLISHING A CORPORATION COURTt SECTION 2, QUALIFICATION OF RECORDER,
ONE YEAR RESIDENCE IN TEXAS AND OVER AGE OF 21, SECTION 3, JURISDICTION
WHERE FINE MAY NOT EXCEED 1200.00; SECTION 4, CITY SECRETARY APPOINTED
CLE?K OF THE COURT; SECTION K, DUTIES OF THE CLERK; SECTION 6, PROCEDURE
BY SWORN C011PLAINTS; SECTION 7, PROVIDING FOR SEAL; SECTION 8, PROSECTUIONS
IN THE NA17E OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND CONCLUDE, AGAINST THE PEACE AND
DIGNITY OF THE STnTE AND CONTRARY TO ORDINANCES ; CONDUCTED BY CITY
ATTORNEY; SECTION 9, COSTS AND FINES, RECORDED YAY 10AIVE COSTS AND FIX
PUNISHMENT BY FINE ONLY, AND ALL FINES COLLECTED BE PAID INTO THE CITY
TREASTIRY; SECTION 10, FIXING THE COSTS VfliICH MAY BE ASSESSED AND ITEITIZING
THE SADTE ; SECTION 11, NO FEES TO BE PAID TO THE RECORDER, CITY AT'T'ORNEY
OR CHIEF OF POLICE, THEIR SF,LAPY FIXED BY ORDINANCE; STCTT.ON 12, COPE
OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE TO GOVERN ; SECTION 13, POb'rM OF RECORI)T;I+ TO PTTNISH
FOR CONTEMPT, TO TAKE R'TCO1-TTJIZt.1'C73 JUDID !SAIL BONDS AND TO FORFEIT THE
SA1,T, ; SECTION 14, 37RVICE OF P.tOCPSS BY CHIEF OF POLICE OR ANY D"EIMER OF
POLICE FORCE IN GEORGETOMI, TEXAS; SECTION 15, SAID CO11RT ALLAYS OPEN FOR
BUSINESS ; SECTION 16, PROVIDING FOR C01,1I1ITMTTS TO CHIEF OF POLICE
AND DISCHARGE OF FITvE BY PAYING CASH OF LAYING S:T,TE OUT IN JAIL, 0.00
FOR r.A('F 24 HOURS ; SECTION 17, REPEAL OF C1[APTFR XI OF COLLECTED
ORDINANCES AND SUBSTITUTING THIS ORDINANCE ; SECTION 18, ANY SrCTION BEING
DECLARED VOID OR ITNCONSTITUTIOYAL SHALL NOT EFFECT THE RETTAINING PART
OF SAID ORDINANCE AND ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE%1TH ARE REPEALED;
ST'C`1'ION 19, THIS ORDINANCE TO BECORIE EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE; SECTION 20,
DECLARING THIS ORDINANCE AN ET,,LRGI NCY NTEASURE AND TAKING EFFECT FROM
AAT AFTER TTS PASSAGE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEOkGET01'iN, TEXAASt
SECTION 1. COURT ESTABLISHED. There is created and established in
said My of Georgetown, Texas, a court to be known as the Corporation
Court of said City, which Court shall have jurisdiction and be organized as
hereinafter prescribed. Said Court shall be presided over by a Recorder
and or Judge of the Corporation Court. (Wherever the word Recorder is used
herein, it shall also mean Judge of the Corporation Court of Georgetown,
Texas.)
SECTION 2, APPOINTbMITT AND QUALIFICATIONS OF RECORDER. The
Recorder or Judge of the Corporation Court shall be appointed by the Mayor -
and ;confirme.d by a majority vote of the City Council. He shall be a citizen
of the United States and shall have resided in Texas for one year prior to
his or her appointment and shall be a resident of the City of Georgetown,
Texas, at the time of his appointment and shall be twenty-one years of
are or over.
The Recorder first appointed under this Ordinance shall hold his
or her term of office corresponding to thar unexpired term of the Mayor,
and every two,(2) years thereafter, a Recorder shall be appointed for