AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING PLATS, PLANS AND SUBDIVISION OF LAND WITHIN THE CITY OF GUNTER, TEXAS, AND ITS LEGALLY DEFINED EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION; CONTAINING CERTAIN DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING PROCEDURES FOR THE APPROVAL OF SUBDIVISION PLATS; PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF STREETS, SIDEWALKS, ALLEYS, WATER AND SANITARY SEWAGE UTILITIES, DRAINAGE AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR EACH VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING A VALIDITY CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.

WHEREAS, under the provisions of the constitution and laws of the State of Texas, including [in] particular Chapters 231, Acts of the 40th Legislature, Regular Session, 1927, as heretofore and hereafter amended (compiled as Articles 974a and 6702.1 Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes), as heretofore and hereafter amended, every owner of any tract of land situated within the City of Gunter who may hereafter divide the same in two (2) or more parts for the purpose of laying out any subdivisions of such tract of land or any addition to said City, or for laying out suburban lots or building lots, or any lots, and streets, alleys or parks or other portions intended for public use, or the use of purchasers or [shall] submit a plat of such subdivision of [or] addition for approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council of the City of Gunter; and,

WHEREAS, the rules and regulations of the City established by this Ordinance governing plats and subdivisions of the land in the corporate limits of the City of Gunter are hereby extended to and shall apply to all of the area under the extraterritorial jurisdiction of said City, as provided for in the Municipal Annexation Act, 1963, enacted by the State of Texas and which appears as Article 970A, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes; and,