LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE

CHAPTER 53. CODE OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES


	§ 53.001.  ADOPTION OF CODE.  (a)  A municipality may 
adopt by ordinance a codification of its civil and criminal 
ordinances, together with appropriate penalties for the violation 
of the ordinances.
	(b)  On the adoption of the code, the secretary of the 
municipality shall record the code in the municipality's ordinance 
records.
	(c)  The code is effective on its adoption.                                    

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.                    


	§ 53.002.  PUBLICATION OF ADOPTION 
ORDINANCE.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the 
ordinance adopting a code of municipal ordinances shall be 
published in the official publication of the municipality or in a 
newspaper published in the municipality or county as provided by 
law.
	(b)  If the municipality is a special-law municipality and 
its charter provides for the publication of both civil and criminal 
ordinances, the municipality shall publish the ordinance in 
compliance with its charter.
	(c)  It is not necessary to publish the code itself.                           

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.  Amended 
by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1, § 87(d), eff. Aug. 28, 1989.


	§ 53.003.  SUBDIVISION OF CODE.  A code of municipal 
ordinances may be subdivided into chapters, titles, articles, or 
sections at the discretion of the governing body of the 
municipality.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.                    


	§ 53.004.  CHANGE OR REPEAL OF ORDINANCE.  If a change in 
a municipality's form of government and designation of offices and 
officers necessitates the change or repeal of an ordinance or part 
of an ordinance being codified, the municipality may amend, omit, 
or repeal the ordinance in the codification to conform it to the 
municipality's present form of government without separately 
reenacting, repealing, or amending the source ordinance.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.                    


	§ 53.005.  EFFECT OF CODIFICATION.  (a)  A municipal 
code of ordinances has the force and effect of an ordinance 
regularly adopted in accordance with law.
	(b)  The record of the code in the municipality's ordinance 
records is a record of the codified ordinances and establishes the 
content of those ordinances.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.                    


	§ 53.006.  PRINTED CODE AS EVIDENCE.  (a)  A 
municipality may have printed, under the direction of the governing 
body of the municipality, a copy of the code that is authenticated 
and approved by the mayor's signature and attested by the secretary 
of the municipality.
	(b)  In a court, the printed code is prima facie evidence of 
the existence and regular enactment of the ordinance adopting the 
code.  A court shall admit the printed code in evidence without 
further proof.

Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.