Validity: If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or provision of this ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of this ordinance as a whole, or any part or provision thereof other than the part so decided to be invalid or unconstitutional.

Repeal: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed, except that where a special permit zoning ordinance has heretofore been adopted by the city council requiring dedication of street or alley right-of-way, and where such required right-of-way has not been dedicated, the provisions of such special permit ordinances requiring such dedications shall remain in full force and effect, and shall not be repealed by the provisions of this zoning ordinance.

Effective date: All changes from the existing ordinance by this ordinance shall become effective on October 1, 1973.

Emergency enactment: The fact that the present zoning regulations are inadequate to properly safeguard the general public welfare, health, peace and safety creates an urgency and an emergency and requires that this ordinance become effective immediately upon its passage and publication of the caption of such ordinances, as the law in such cases provided, and it is accordingly so ordained.

Duly passed by the city council of the City of Mesquite, Texas, on the fourth day of September, 1973.