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ORDINANCE NO: 1487
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CIBOLO, TEXAS, AMENDING
CHAPTER 74 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
CHIOLO; PROVIDING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PARKING
NEAR CITY HALL; PROVIDING FOR SAVINGS; REPEAL;
SEVERABILITY; PUBLICATION AND CODIFICATION;
DECLARING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS ORDINANCE
WAS ADOPTED WAS CONDUCTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council finds the City of Cibolo, Texas (the "City") is a home -rule
municipality with the authority to enact laws to protect the public, health, and safety of residents
and visitors to the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that Chapter 74 of the Cibolo Code of Ordinances
("Chapter 74") regulates parking throughout various areas of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds periods of time repeatedly exist where the stopping,
standing, and parking of vehicles within the City Hall parking lot, especially during events,
interferes with the ability to access City Hall by employees, appointed and elected officials,
and citizens conducting or participating in city business, causing an increased danger for
vehicle and pedestrian conflict and a danger to health and safety of the public; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it should provide for the reservation of parking spaces
in the City Hall parking lot, prohibiting their use for any purpose other than to conduct or
participate in city business; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds ensuring parking spaces in the City Hall parking lot for
use to conduct or participate in city business should adequately protect the public health and
safety of those using the parking area, and necessitating reasonable regulations to minimize
the interference caused by the stopping, standing, and parking of any vehicle in certain
parking spaces within the City Hall parking lot; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is in the best interest of the citizens of the City of
Cibolo to implement new regulations for stopping, standing and parking at City Hall; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council finds that amending Chapter 74, Article V, Section 74-188 is
in the best interest of the citizens of the City of Cibolo; and
WHEREAS, The City Council hereby enacts amendments to Chapter 74, Article V, Section
74-188 of the City of Cibolo's Code of Ordinances, as shown in Exhibit A; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CIBOLO, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Findings. The recitals are hereby found to be true and correct and are hereby
incorporated as part of this Ordinance.
SECTION 2. Amendments. The Code of Ordinances of the City of Cibolo, Texas is hereby
amended by adding new subsections (c), (d), (e) and (f) of section 74-188 of chapter 74, as shown
in Exhibit A attached hereto.
SECTION 3. Execution. The City Manager or his designee shall be directed to 1) cause an
appropriate number of parking spaces in the City Hall parking lot to be reserved for city
business use only; 2) cause the spaces identified to be clearly marked as "Reserved For City
Business Use Only'; and 3) cause an appropriate sign notifying vehicle operators at each
entrance to the City Hall parking lot of the reserved parking spaces for city business use only
and that violators will be cited and towed.
SECTION 4. Savings. All rights and remedies of the City are expressly saved as to any and
all violations of the provisions of any ordinances which have accrued at the time of the
effective date of this Ordinance; and such accrued violations and litigation, both civil and
criminal, whether pending in court or not, under such ordinances, shall not be affected by
this Ordinance but may be prosecuted until final disposition by the courts.
SECTION 5. Repeal. All resolutions, ordinances, or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent
with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. In
the event of a conflict or inconsistency between this Ordinance and any other resolution, code
or ordinance of the City, or parts thereof, the terms and provisions of this Ordinance shall
govern.
SECTION 6. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or illegal by final judgment of a court
of competent authority, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed and ordained
all the remaining portions of this Ordinance without the inclusion of such portion or portions
found to be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION 7. Publication and Codification. The City shall publish this Ordinance in the
newspaper designated as the official newspaper of the City twice as required by Section
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3.13(3) of the City Charter. This Ordinance will be codified in the Cibolo Code in the next
appropriate update.
SECTION 8. Open Meeting Compliance. The City Council finds that the meeting at which
this Ordinance passed was conducted in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act.
SECTION 9. Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this
Ordinance. Any person who violates, or any person who causes or allows another person to
violate, any provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and
not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each occurrence of any violation of this
Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. Each day on which any violation of this Ordinance
occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 10. Effective Date. This Ordinance will become effective upon the required
newspaper publication and the installation of signage designating the restricted parking area.
City staff is directed to immediately initiate a warning campaign upon the installation of
signage. Citations may be issued and vehicles may be towed beginning thirty (30) days after
installation of signage.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED on
ATTEST:
Peggy Cimics, TRMC
City Secretary
2025.
Mark Allen, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Hyde Kelle LP
City Attorney
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CIBOLO CODE OR ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 74 — TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
ARTICLE V. — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING
Sec. 74-188. — Parking prohibited in certain places.
(c) Parking in spaces reserved for city business only. It is unlawful for a person to stop, stand, or park
any vehicle for any purpose other than to conduct or participate in city business in spaces restricted
and marked only for city business in the parking lot at City Hall complex, located at 200 S. Main
Street, Cibolo, Texas.
(d) Head-InlTail-In Parking Only. A person may only park any vehicle at the City Hall complex within
the boundaries of the pavement markings of a single parking space. The City Hall complex is the
parcel of land on which the City of Cibolo City Hall is located.
(e) Towingprovisions. The City Manager or his designee may cause any vehicle found in violation of this
section to be towed away, and the owner of such vehicle shall be civilly liable to the person doing
such towing for the reasonable cost thereto.
(f) Any person who violates subsections (c) or (d) of this section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars ($100.00) and not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
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