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and it may make final disposition of such vehicles or parts, or the City may transfer such
vehicles or parts to another, provided such disposal shall be only as scrap or salvage, consis-
tent with Section 10, Subdivision C of the Texas Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act.
(i) Authority to Enforce
(1) The City Manager of the City of Georgetown shall have full responsibility for ad-
ministration of this Ordinance by its regular salaried, full time employees, except that the
removal of junked motor vehicles or parts thereof from property may be by any other duly
authorized person.
(2) The City Manager of the City of Georgetown or any of his duly authorized employees
or agents are authorized to administer the provisions of this Ordinance and they are hereby
given authority to enter upon private property for the purposes specified in the Ordinance
to examine vehicles or parts thereof, obtain information as to the identity of vehicles and
remove or cause the removal of a motor vehicle or parts thereof declared to be a nuisance pur-
suant to the procedures of this Ordinance. The Municipal Court of the City of Georgetown
enacting such procedures of the Ordinance as provided herein, shall have authority to issue
all orders necessary to enforce such procedures of the Ordinance. -
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to affect statutes that permit immediate
removal of a motor vehicle left on public property which constitutes an obstruction to traffic.
(j) Penalty
G0 (1) Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a
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misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than ($200.00)
Dollars.
(A) Each transaction in violation of any of the provisions hereof shall be deemed a
separate offense.
(B) Each day a public nuisance is allowed to continue after ithas duly determined
to be such, shall constitute a separate violation.
(k) Removal from Unoccupied Premises by Order of Municipal Court.
(1) If there is a junked motor vehicle•on.premises that are unoccupied and neither the
owner of the premises nor the owner of said vehicle can be found and notified to remove same,
then, upon a showing of such facts to the Judge of the Municipal Court, the Court may issue
an order idrecting the City Manager or any duly authorized person to have the some removed, and
the City Manager or any duly authorized person shall take possession of said junked motor
vehicle and remove it from the premises in the procedure provided for by this Ordinance.
(1) Savings Clause
(1) It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council of the City of Georgetown
that the sub -sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Ordinance are
severable, and if any of them shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the valid
judgement or decree of any Court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or in-
validity shall not affect any of the remaining sub -sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
or phrases of this Ordinance since the same would have been enacted by the City Council
of the City of Georgetown without the incorporation of this Ordinance of any unconstitutional
or invalid sub -sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases.
(m) Ordinance No. 228 adopted by the City Council of the City of Georgetown on
February 14, 1967, is expressly repealed as are any other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances
in conflict herewith.
READ,' PASSED AND ADOPTED this 11th day of March, 1974, on the first reading and read,
passed and adopted on this the 8th day of April, 1974, on second reading.
ATTEST:
ty Secretary l Joe E. Crawford, Mayor, Zity of Georgetown