HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 054-1911 - Providing For The Working Of The Streets Of The City Of Lubbock. - 05/08/1911ORDINANCE NO. 54
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE WORKING OF THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK, TEXAS, BY ITS INHABITANTS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY QF LUBBOCK, TEXAS:
Article 1. All male persons between the ages of twenty-one (21) and
forty-five (45) years shall be liable, and it is hereby made their duty, to
work on, repair, and clean out the public roads, streets, and alleys of this
City under the provisions and regulations of this Ordinance: provided that
no minister of the Gospel in active discharge of his Ministerial duties, invalid,
member of the Volunteer Guards organized under the title "Militia" nor members
of any volunteer Fire Company in active discharge of their duties as firemen,
shall be required to work.
Article 2. No person shall be required to work on the road, street, or
alley, of this City who has not been a resident within the City Limits when
he shall have been summoned to work for fifteen days next preceeding his sum-
mons.
Article 3. Any persons who has been summoned to do road, street, or
alley work, and is liable under this chapter to do it, shall have the right to
furnish an able bodied substutute to work in his place, which substitute shall
be accepted by the officer in charge of the work, if he is capable of perform-
ing a reasonable amount of work, otherwise, he shall not be accepted.
Article 4. Every person liable to work on said road, streets, or alleys,
by paying the officer in charge of that branch of the City work, the sum of
Two Dollars, ($2.00) for the full time of five days work shall be exempt from
such service throughout the current year of 1911.
Article 5. Each person summoned to work on a road, street, or alley of
this City shall take with him and axe, hoe, pick, mattock, shovel, or other
such tool as he is desired and directed by the overseer or the person in charge
of that branch of the City work, or if he have no such tool as he is desired
or directed, then he shall take such other suitable tool as he may have.
Article 6. It shall be the duty of each hand to perform his duties as
such in, accordance with the directions and instruction of his Overseer or
person in charge of the work, and a days work under this Chapter shall be eight
(8) hours efficient service, when voluntarily performed.
Article 7. No person shall be required to work on any street, road, or
alleys of this City for more than five days in any one year.
Passed and approved this the 8th day of May, 1911.
F.E. Wheelock, Mayor
ATTEST: W.H. Shaw, City Secretary.