TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
		Chapter
			10.	GENERAL PROVISIONS
			11.	CITY STANDARDS
CHAPTER 10: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
	10.01	Title of code
	10.02	Interpretation
	10.03	Application to future ordinances
	10.04	Captions
	10.05	Definitions
	10.06	Rules of interpretation
	10.07	Severability
	10.08	Reference to other sections
	10.09	Reference to offices
	10.10	Errors and omissions
	10.11	Official time
	10.12	Reasonable time
	10.13	Ordinances repealed
	10.14	Ordinances unaffected
	10.15	Effective date of ordinances
	10.16	Repeal or modification of ordinance
	10.17	Section histories; statutory references

	10.99	General penalty
§ 10.01  TITLE OF CODE.
	This codification of ordinances by and for the City of Hooks, Texas shall be designated as the Code of Hooks, Texas and may be so cited.
§ 10.02  INTERPRETATION.
	Unless otherwise provided herein, or by law or implication required, the same rules of construction, definition and application shall govern the interpretation of this code as those governing the interpretation of state law.
§ 10.03  APPLICATION TO FUTURE ORDINANCES.
	All provisions of Title I compatible with future legislation shall apply to ordinances hereafter adopted amending or supplementing this code unless otherwise specifically provided.
§ 10.04  CAPTIONS.
	Headings and captions used in this code other than the title, chapter and section numbers are employed for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed a part of the text of any section.
§ 10.05  DEFINITIONS.
	(A)	General rule.  Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense.  However, technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
	(B)	For the purpose of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
		CITY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION or MUNICIPALITY.  The City of Hooks, Texas.
		CODE, THIS CODE or THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES.  This  municipal code as modified by amendment, revision and adoption of new titles, chapters or sections.
		COUNCIL.  The legislative body of the city.
		COUNTY.  Bowie County, Texas.
		MAY.  The act referred to is permissive.
		MONTH.  A calendar month.
		OATH.  An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words SWEAR and SWORN shall be equivalent to the words AFFIRM and AFFIRMED.  
		OFFICER, OFFICE, EMPLOYEE, COMMISSION or DEPARTMENT.  An officer, office, employee, commission or department of this municipality unless the context clearly requires otherwise.  
		PERSON.  Extends to and includes person, persons, firm, corporation, copartnership, trustee, lessee or receiver.  Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the terms PERSON or WHOEVER as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the partners or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers or agents thereof.
		PRECEDING or FOLLOWING.  Next before or next after, respectively. 
		SHALL.  The act referred to is mandatory.
		SIGNATURE or SUBSCRIPTION.  Includes a mark when the person cannot write. 
		STATE.  The State of Texas.
		SUBCHAPTER.  A division of a chapter, designated in this code by a heading in the chapter 
analysis and a capitalized heading in the body of the chapter, setting apart a group of sections related by the subject matter of the heading.  Not all chapters have subchapters.
		WRITTEN.  Any representation of words, letters or figures, whether by printing or otherwise.  
		YEAR.  A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed.
§ 10.06  RULES OF INTERPRETATION.
	The construction of all ordinances of this municipality shall be by the following rules, unless such construction is plainly repugnant to the intent of the legislative body or of the context of the same ordinance:
	(A)	AND or OR.  Either conjunction shall include the other as if written "and/or," if the sense requires it.
	(B)	Acts by assistants.  When a statute or ordinance requires an act to be done which, by law, an agent or deputy as well may do as the principal, such requisition shall be satisfied by the performance of such act by an authorized agent or deputy.
	(C)	Gender; singular and plural; tenses.  Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders; words in the singular shall include the plural, and words in the plural shall include the singular; the use of a verb in the present tense shall include the future, if applicable.
	(D)	General term.  A general term following specific enumeration of terms is not to be limited to the class enumerated unless expressly so limited.
§ 10.07  SEVERABILITY.
	If any provision of this code as now or later amended or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
§ 10.08  REFERENCE TO OTHER SECTIONS.
	Whenever in one section reference is made to another section hereof, such reference shall extend and apply to the section referred to as subsequently amended, revised, recodified or renumbered unless the subject matter is changed or materially altered by the amendment or revision.
§ 10.09  REFERENCE TO OFFICES.
	Reference to a public office or officer shall be deemed to apply to any office, officer or employee of this municipality exercising the powers, duties or functions contemplated in the provision, irrespective of any transfer of functions or change in the official title of the functionary.
§ 10.10  ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
	If a manifest error is discovered, consisting of the misspelling of any words; the omission of any word or words necessary to express the intention of the provisions affected; the use of a word or words to which no meaning can be attached; or the use of a word or words when another word or words was clearly intended to express such intent, such spelling shall be corrected and such word or words supplied, omitted or substituted as will conform with the manifest intention, and the provisions shall have the same effect as though the correct words were contained in the text as originally published.  No alteration shall be made or permitted if any question exists regarding the nature or extent of such error.
§ 10.11  OFFICIAL TIME.
	The official time, as established by applicable state/federal laws, shall be the official time within this municipality for the transaction of all municipal business.
§ 10.12  REASONABLE TIME.
	(A)	In all cases where an ordinance requires an act to be done in a reasonable time or requires reasonable notice to be given, reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean the time which is necessary for a prompt performance of such act or the giving of such notice.
	(B)	The time within which an act is to be done, as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last.  If the last day be Sunday, it shall be excluded.
§ 10.13  ORDINANCES REPEALED.
	This code, from and after its effective date, shall contain all of the provisions of a general nature pertaining to the subjects herein enumerated and embraced.  All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated by this code shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this code.
§ 10.14  ORDINANCES UNAFFECTED.
	All ordinances of a temporary or special nature and all other ordinances pertaining to subjects not embraced in this code shall remain in full force and effect unless herein repealed expressly or by necessary implication.
§ 10.15  EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCES.
	All ordinances passed by the legislative body requiring publication shall take effect from and after the due publication thereof, unless otherwise expressly provided.  Ordinances not requiring publication shall take effect from their passage, unless otherwise expressly provided.
§ 10.16  REPEAL OR MODIFICATION OF ORDINANCE.
	(A)	Whenever any ordinance or part of an ordinance shall be repealed or modified by a subsequent ordinance, the ordinance or part of an ordinance thus repealed or modified shall continue in force until the due publication of the ordinance repealing or modifying it when publication is required to give effect thereto, unless otherwise expressly provided.
	(B)	No suit, proceedings, right, fine, forfeiture or penalty instituted, created, given, secured or accrued under any ordinance previous to its repeal shall in anyway be affected, released or discharged, but may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered as fully as if the ordinance had continued in force unless it is otherwise expressly provided.
	(C)	When any ordinance repealing a former ordinance, clause or provision shall be itself repealed, the repeal shall not be construed to revive the former ordinance, clause or provision, unless it is expressly provided.
§ 10.17  SECTION HISTORIES; STATUTORY REFERENCES.
	(A)	As histories for the code sections, the specific number and passage date of the original ordinance, and the most recent three amending ordinances, if any, are listed following the text of the code section.  Example:  (Ord. 10, passed 5-13-60; Am. Ord. 15, passed 1-1-70; Am. Ord. 20, passed 1-1-80; Am. Ord. 25, passed 1-1-85)
	(B)	(1)	If a statutory cite is included in the history, this indicates that the text of the section reads substantially the same as the statute.  Example:  (Tex. Loc. Gov't Code, § 54.001) (Ord. 10, passed 1-17-80; Am. Ord. 20, passed 1-1-85).
		(2)	If a statutory cite is set forth as a "statutory reference" following the text of the section, this indicates that the reader should refer to that statute for further information.
Example:
	§ 31.10  ORDINANCE VIOLATIONS.
		This city has the authority to impose penalties for ordinance violations.
	(Ord. 10, passed 1-1-80)
	Statutory reference:
		General municipality penalty, see Tex. Loc. Gov't Code, § 54.001
§ 10.99  GENERAL PENALTY.
	(A)	Whenever in this code or in any ordinance of the city any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful, an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such code or ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this code or ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000 for violations of all such rules, ordinances and police regulations that govern fire safety, zoning or public health and sanitation, including dumping of refuse, not exceeding $500 for all other violations. Each day any violation of any provision of this code or of any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
	(B)	In case of the amendment by the City Council of any section of this code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in division (A) shall apply to the section as amended; or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a specified penalty other than the aforementioned general penalty is provided in another section in the same chapter, the penalty so specified shall be held to relate to the amended section, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
(Ord. 12-13-99, passed 12-13-99)
Statutory reference:
	Municipal penalties, see Tex. Loc. Gov't Code, § 54.001
CHAPTER 11: CITY STANDARDS
Section
	11.01	City limits
§ 11.01  CITY LIMITS.
	The City of Hooks, Bowie County, Texas, is comprised of that certain area of land located within the County of Bowie and State of Texas more fully and particularly described as follows:
	Beginning at a point on the south boundary line of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company's right-of-way at the point at which it intersects the west boundary line of the county road known as Precinct Line Road (F.M.1398), at a point 297.2 ft. west of the east boundary line of the H.H. Mitchell Head Right Survey.  Thence N.81°30'W along the aforesaid right-of-way 3603 ft. to the center (or P.I.) of a 0.30' curve to the left. Thence S.86°30' W.6000 ft. to a corner, at 9603 ft. a corner in the south right-of-way of Texas & Pacific Railroad Company.  Thence south 125 ft. to a corner.  Thence west 180 ft. to a corner.  Thence north 125 ft. to a corner.  Thence 5.86°30' west 7050 ft. to a corner in the south boundary line of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company's right-of-way at a point south of the east right-of-way line the county road that lies along or about the center line of the Charles Collum Survey to the north.  Thence north, crossing the railroad and U.S. Highway 82 and continuing along the east boundary of a foresaid road 2000 ft. to a point where the south boundary line of Interstate Highway 30 intersects with the east boundary line right-of-way of the aforementioned county road.  Thence east with  Interstate Highway 30 south right-of-way, the following distances: N.59°51' E.354.52 ft.; N.46°32' E.355.84 ft.; N.78°47' E.1031.88 ft.; N.75°55' E.1768.87 ft.; N.81°39' E.800.75 ft.; N.76°20' E.1660.64 ft.; N.82°52' E.415 ft. to the west bank of Panther Creek.  Thence north 2300 ft. to the north boundary line of Ave. "P."  Thence east with the north boundary line of Ave. "P" .340 ft. to a point.  Thence north 1760 ft. to the south boundary line of St. Johns Road.  Thence east 417 ft. to the east boundary line of F.M. Road 560.  Thence south with the east boundary line of F.M. 560, 2030 ft. to a fence corner.  Thence east 1500 ft. to a corner.  Thence south 1540 ft. to the south boundary line of Interstate Highway 30.  Thence with the south boundary line of Interstate 10, N.78°47' E.3976.16 ft. to a point.  Thence continuing with the south boundary line of Interstate Highway 30, northeasterly with a curve to the right having a radius of 11,459.16', a distance of 2463.31 ft.  Thence with the south boundary line of Interstate Highway 30 right-of-way, S.72°45' E.1286.2 ft. to a point.  Thence S.37°34' E.75.84 ft. to the west right-of-way of Precinct Line Road (F.M. 1398).  Thence south with the west right-of-way of Precinct Line Road (F.M. 1398), 3400 ft. to the point of beginning in the south boundary line of the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way.  
(Ord. passed 8-21-87)