Ordinance 2024-27 ORDINANCE NO. 2024-27
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS,
AMENDING WYLIE'S CODE OF ORDINANCES,ORDINANCE NO. 2021-17,AS
AMENDED,APPENDIX A(COMPREHENSIVE FEE SCHEDULE), SECTION III
(CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND FEES),SUBSECTION B(MISCELLANEOUS
FEES) TO AMEND WEEDS, HIGH GRASS, AND TRASH ABATEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE FEE PER LOT OR TRACT OF LAND; PROVIDING A
SAVINGS/REPEALING CLAUSE, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PENALTY
CLAUSE AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE
PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION HEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas ("City Council") has adopted a
Comprehensive Fee Schedule ("Comprehensive Fee Schedule") for the City of Wylie, Texas ("Wylie"),
which is codified in Appendix A of the Wylie Code of Ordinances, Ordinance No. 2021-17, as amended
("Code of Ordinances")' and
WHEREAS,the City Council has investigated and determined that it would be advantageous and
beneficial to the citizens of Wylie to amend the following provisions of the Wylie Comprehensive Fee
Schedule as provided herein: Section III(Construction Permits and Fees); and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it would be advantageous, beneficial and in the best
interest of Wylie and its citizens to amend the Code of Ordinances, as set forth below; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS:
Section 1. Findings Incorporated. The findings set forth above are incorporated into the body of
this Ordinance as if fully set forth herein.
Section 2. Amendment to Appendix A (Wylie Comprehensive Fee Schedule) of the Wylie Code
of Ordinances. Appendix A (Comprehensive Fee Schedule), Section III (Construction Permit and Fees),
Subsection B(Miscellaneous Fees),to amend weeds,high grass,and trash abatement administrative fee per
lot or tract of land of the Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows:
"APPENDIX A
WYLIE COMPREHENSIVE FEE SCHEDULE
11I. - Construction Permit and Fees.
B. Miscellaneous Fees.
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Weeds, high gfass, and trash abatement administr-ative fee,per-lot or-tfaet Of lafid.-- $75.00
Residential weeds, high grass, and trash abatement administrative fee per lot or tract of
land: $250(if lot exceeds one acre each additional acre will be charged at a rate of$150).
Residential weeds, high grass, and trash abatement with debris (debris determined by
mowing contractor and Code Compliance)administrative fee per lot or tract of land: $750
(if lot exceeds one acre each additional acre will be charged at a rate of$250).
Commercial weeds, high grass, and trash abatement administrative fee per lot or tract of
land: $500(if lot exceeds one acre each additional acre will be charged at a rate of$250).
Commercial weeds, high grass, and trash abatement with debris (debris determined by
mowing contractor and Code Compliance)administrative fee per lot or tract of land: $1,000
(if lot exceeds one acre each additional acre will be charged at a rate of$500).
Section 3. Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation or entity that violates this Ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars ($2,000.00) if the violation relates to the public health and sanitation, otherwise the fine
shall be a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars($500.00).Each continuing day's violation shall constitute
a separate offenses. The penal provisions imposed under this Ordinance shall not preclude the Wylie from
filing suit to enjoin the violation.Wylie retains all legal rights and remedies available to it pursuant to local,
state and federal law.
Section 4. Savings/Repealing. All provisions of the Code of Ordinances shall remain in full force
and effect, save and except as amended by this or any other ordinance. All provisions of any ordinance in
conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent they are in conflict;but such repeal shall not
abate any pending prosecution for violation of the repealed ordinance, nor shall the repeal prevent a
prosecution from being commenced for any violation if occurring prior to the repeal of the ordinance. Any
remaining portions of said ordinances shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 5. Severability. Should any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is expressly
provided that any and all remaining portions of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance,and each section,subsection,clause
or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,clauses,and
phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage and
publication as required by the City Charter and by law.
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DULY PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas, on this the
101h day of September, 2024.
ew Porter, Mayor
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ATTEST:
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� \Stephanie Storm, City Secretary
Date of publication in The Wylie News: September 18, 2024
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STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF COLLIN
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Chad Engbrock,
publisher of C & S Media, dba The Wylie News, a newspaper regularly published in
Collin County, Texas and having general circulation in Collin County, Texas, and being
in compliance with Section 2051.044, Texas Government Code (a); (1), (2), (3) and (4),
who being by me duly sworn, deposed and says that the foregoing attached:
City of Wylie
Legal Notice—Ordinance No. 2024-27
was published in said newspaper on the following date(s), to-wit:
September 19,2024
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Chad Engbrock, Publisher
Subscribed and sworn before me on this, the 19th day of September, 2024, to certify
which witness my hand and seal of office.
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amending Wylie's code
of ordinances, Ordi-
nance No. 2021-17,as
amended, Appendix
A (cosehensive fee
schedule), Section III
(construction permits
and fees), Subsection
B (miscellaneous fees)
to amend wads, hiS4.
grass,and trash abate-
ment administrative fee
per lot or tract of land;
providing a savings/re-
pealing clause, sever-
ability clause, penalty
clause ind'an effective
date;and pwiding for
the publicati& of the
caption hereof.
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