(a) 
The city desires to and does hereby adopt article 974a-1 Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes concerning the enforcement of certain land use restrictions.
(b) 
This section shall be uniformly applied and enforced as to all property and citizens within the incorporated limits of the city, except that a violation of a restriction occurring before the effective date of this section shall not be abated so long as the violation remains unchanged nor shall the city enforce a restriction that violates the constitution of the United States or of the state.
(Ordinance 16, secs. 1, 2, adopted 8/29/78)
All ordinances of the city now existing pertaining to and establishing rules and regulations governing plats and the subdivision of land, and all future ordinances of the city pertaining to and establishing rules and regulations governing plats and the subdivision of land, shall be extended in their application pursuant to V.T.C.A., Local Government Code, section 212.003, to the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city.
(Ordinance 33 adopted 2/13/79)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any individual, firm or corporation to build and/or construct any building or other structure within the corporate limits of the city unless and until the real property upon which such building or other structure is to be located is platted and said plat approved by the city council.
(b) 
Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction, be fined any sum not to exceed the state mandated maximum, and each transaction and violation of the provisions hereof shall be a separate and distinct offense.
(Ordinance 18, secs. 1, 2, adopted 8/29/78; Ordinance 180, sec. 1, adopted 3/13/02)
The subdivision ordinance, Ordinance 188, adopted by the city on December 11, 2002, as amended, is included at the end of this chapter as exhibit A. Due to the nature of the subdivision ordinance and the technicalities involved in adopting or amending it, such ordinance is printed herein as enacted, with only nonsubstantive formatting and style changes. Capitalization, punctuation and numbering of articles, sections and subsections have been retained as enacted. Subsequent amendments will be inserted in their proper place and denoted by a history note following the amended provisions. The absence of a history note indicates the material is unchanged from the original. Obviously misspelled words have been corrected without notation. Any other material added for purposes of clarification is enclosed in brackets.
(Ordinance adopting Code)