HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 9/27/1923Sept. 27th., 1923.
City Commission met in regular session with the following; present:
Mayor, Percy Spencer, Commissions, W. S. Posey, H. G. Love and Geo.
C. w olffarth, R. A. Sowder, City Attorney and M. S. Ruby, City Mgr.
W. N. Wood was before the @ ty Co rri�}}iss,��}/ anting damages from the
City for falling in meter`" oK'tAd side of square. The matter was
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ssed and by unanimous vote was turned over to Mr. Ruby and Mr. disposition.
The citizens paving committee was present, also Major Jno. 4 Hawley
of Ft. Worth, and some very interesting talks were made in regard to
the proposed street paving.
By unanimous vote the following Ordinance was read and ordered passed.
q0 4. ORDIIIANC � ..
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An Ordinance regulating parkin- of vehicles on certain Streets and �' r1w Avenues of this City, limiting~ the time a vehicle may be parked thereon,
forbidding again parking on such highways under certain conditions:
providing that no vehicle shall be stopped without being parked next the
curb in certain sections of the City; fixing penalties for violation of any
portion hereof: repealing all Ordinances and parts of Ordinances on conflict
herewith; and declaring an emergency account of hindrance to traffic.
Be it ordained by the City Commission, of the City of Lubbock, Texas.
Section 1. No vehicle shall be parked on the West side of Ave I
between Main Street and Thirteenth Street for a longer time than thirty minutes, a
and, if a vehicle has been parked alon such territory for thirty minutes, it
shall not be, within one hour thereafter, parked in said district.
Section 2. No person shall stop any vehicle on any paved street or avenue
within this City, except against the curb.
Section. 3. Any person convicted of violating any part of this Ordinance
shall be punished by a. fine of not less than One, nor more than fifty dollars.
Section 4. The fact that the accumulation of vehicles for long periods
of time in the territory described in Section 1, hinders orderly traffic
and stopping vehicles away from the curb is dangerous, creztes an emergency
and public necessity that the rule of the charter requiring ordinances to be
read at two meetings before passage, be, and the same is, hereby suspended,
and this Ordinance be passed at the meeting of its introduction. And it is so
enacted, and this Ordinance shall be in force from its due publication
Passed and approved this 27th. day of September, 1923.
P Spencer.
Mayor
City of Lubbock, Texas.
Attest-
J. R. Germany,
City Sedretary, City of
Lubbock, Texas.
There being no further business the meeting; adjourned.
Read and approved thisZJ day of al
1924 /
�� o city of Lubbdck,exas.
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Germany,
City Secy, 0ity,'
04r%tf, "ock, Texas.
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