HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 036-1910 - Fire Limits Within The City Of Lubbock Texas, ETC. - 03/07/1910ORDINANCE NO. 36
AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING THE FIRE LIMITS WITHIN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAFEGUARDING AGAINST THE CALAMITIES OF FIRE AND PROHIBITING
THE BUILDING, PLACING, MOVING, OR REPAIR OF WODDEN BUILDINGS WITHIN SAID LIMITS
AND PROHIBITING THE MOVING AND PUTTING OF ANY WOODEN BUILDING FROM WITHOUT SAID
LIMITS INTO SAID LIMITS AND PROHIBITING THE MOVING OF ANY WOODEN BUILDING FROM
ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER WITHIN SAID LIMITS AND PROVIDING THAT ANY BUILDING HEREAFTER
BUILT WITHIN SAID LIMITS SHALL BE BUILT AND CONSTRUCTED OF FIRE PROOF MATERIAL
AND PROVIDING FOR THE CONDEMTdING OF ANY BUILDING THAT MAY BE HEREAFTER BUILT OR
REPAIRED IN VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AS A NUISANCE, AND FIXING A PENALTY FOR
THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That all of that portion of the City of Lubbock within the
following limits, to -wit:
BEGINNING at the north-east corner of lot No. 13, in Block 107 where the
same intersects the Right-of-way of the Pecos & Northern Texas Railroad;
THENCE within the west line of said Right-of-way, in a South-easterly
direction, to the South-west corner of Lot No. 20 in Block 139 at a point
in north line of alley;
THENCE West with said line to the South-east corner of No. 16 in Block
136:
THENCE South with the East line of Walnut Street to the North line of
South Second Street.
THENCE West with said line to the east line of Ash Street;
THENCE North with said line to the North-west corner of Lot No. b, Block
133, in the south line of alley;
THENCE West with said line to the North -meat corner of Lot No. b in Block
132:
THENCE North with the east line of Cypress Street to the North-west corner
of Lot No. b, Block 102 in south line of Alley;
THENCE East with said litre to the North-west corner of Lot No. b, Block
102 in south line of alley;
THENCE east with said line to the North -vest corner of Lot No. b, Block
103 in the east line of Ash Street;
THENCE Nord[ with said line to the North -meat corner of Lot No. 1, Block
103 in the South line of North Second Street;
THENCE East with said line to where same intersects with the west line of
the Right -of -sway of the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway Company;
THENCE with said West line Od said Right-of-way to the place of BEGINNING
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according to the Original map of the Torah of Lubbock as of Record in Vol. 5,
pages 384 and 385 Deed Records of Lubbock County, Texas, to be declared within
the Fire Limits of said City and hereafter it shall be unlawful to build, erect,
construct, place, move, or repair any wooden building within said prescribed lim-
its, or to move or to put any wooden building from without limits into the said
limits, or to remorse any wooden building from any place within said limits to any
other place Within said limits, and hereafter any building built or repaired with-
in said limits shall be built of and repaired with fire proof material.
SECTION 2. Any building that may hereafter be built, constructed, or
repaired within said limits, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, may
be condemned by the City Council of this City, as a nuisance, and removed as such.
SECTION 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in apy
sum not lees than $5.00 more than $100.00 for each offense.
SECTION 4. Each day that any building is maintained within said fire limits,
that has been built, constructed, or repaired in violation of this Ordinance shall
be deemed to be a separate offense.
T he above Ordinance was regualrly passed by the City Council of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, at a meeting thereof by the following vote;
Aye 3. Poe: None. on the 7th day of March, A.D. 1910, and is hereby approved
by me on said date.
F. E. Wheelock, Mayor of the City of
Lubbock, Texas.
ATTEST: W.M. Shaw, City Secretary.
(seal) .