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ORDINANCE N0. 168
AN ORDINANCE giving to each member of the Fire Department of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, the power of a policeman after an alarm of fire has been
sounded, or during a fire, empowering such members with the right to
commandeer vehicles and means of transportation during said time, imposing
a penalty and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY =YNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
Section 1. That each member of the Fire Department of the City of Lubbock,
Texas, is hereby created a policeman upon the alarm of fire being given,
and during the existence of a fire within the City of Lubbock, Texas, and
as such policeman, he shall have power to require any person having means
of transportation on the public streets to immediately carry said fireman
to the scene of the Fire by the route to be directed by such fireman.
Section 2. In all prosecutions under this Ordinance it shall not be
necessary for the City to prove further than there was an alarm of fire
turned in, or sounded, or such fire was in progress within the city limits;
that such fireman made known to a person having means of transportation
upon the public streets of the fact of such fireman`s wish to be, and that
the person having such means of transportation refused to so transport
such fireman.
Section 3. Any person found guilty of a violation of any part of this
Ordinance shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Dollars nor more
than Fifty Dollars.
Section 4. The fact that there exists no mode by which the fireman can
be immediately carried to a fire, and the danger arising from fires,
creates an emergency, so that this Ordinance is passed on the day of its
presentation, by unanimous vote, and is to be effective at one.
Passed this the 12th day of February, 1918.
L._ H._Simps, on
Mayor Protem, City of Lubbock,
Texas
Attest; J. W. Lamb
Secretary, City of Lubbock
Approved: R. A. Sowder, City Attorney