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Ordinance No. �Cl
AN QRDINUCK fixing and defining the fire limits
of the City of Lubbock, Texas; providing that only
structures of a certain standard with reference to
inflamability shall be built, erected or constructed
therein,
that no
building not
reaching
such standard
shall be
moved,
in or within
such fire
limits; pro-
hibiting repairs upon buildings now within such
limits when the repairs reach a certain percentage
of the value of such building sought to be repaired;
providing the manner of determining it structures
within such district are detrimental to public
safety, and for the mode of compelling the removal
thereof; repealing all ordinances and parts of or-
dinances in conflict herewith; providing penalties
for the violation of any part hereof; and declaring
an emergency.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City
of Lubbock, Texas.
Section 1. The folliwing blocks within the
original town of Lubbock, Texas, are hereby de-
clared to be within the fire limits; 87, f
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section 2. There shall not be built or constructed
on any lot, or lots, within the fire limits any atructume
the walls and covering whereof shall not be of fire
proof materials; nor shall any structure be moved
from any place onto any lot or lots within said
limits which has not its walla and covering of such
materials.
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Section 3. No building now within said fire
limits, and i.r t constructed of other than fireproof
materials as set out in Section 2, shall be repaired
if the cost of such repairs shall exceed fifty
per centum of the value of such building as it
stands without repair.
Section 4. '-hat Whenever in the judgment of the
City Commission, any building or structure shall
become depapidated, or in such condition as to
render it a menace to property or to public safety
the Commission may notify the owner or person in
charge thereof to appear before it at a day named
in such notice, which shall be not less then ten
nor more than twenty days from the date of such
notice, and show cause why said building or
structure should not be condemned as unsafe and
removed from such fire limits; if, at such hearing,
it she'll be the judgment of the City Commission,
that such building or structure be condemned as
aforesaid and ordered removed from the fire limits,
the owner thereof shall within ten days from the
date of such order remove thebuilding or structure
from the fire limits, and upon his failure to do so
he shall be deemed to have violated this ordinance, and
each dap the said structure or building, or any
part thereof, remains within such fire limits,
shall be a separate offense.
section 5. All ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are repealed.
Section 6. Any person violating, or causing to be
violated, any art hereof shall, upon convicted, be
punished by a art
of not more than two hundred dollars.
Section 7. The fact that there is no ordinance
no adequately protecting the property Within the
limits above named from the hazards of fire, and
the great need to prevent fires Within such district,
creates an emergency and public necessity that the
rule rquiring ordinances to be read at two several
meetiW before enactment be suspended and that this
ordinance be passed at the meeting of its intro—
duction, and be effective after due publication,
and it is so ordered.
Passed and approved this day of 1921.
J
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e Commissioner o. . irg
Mayor. Oi ty of Lubbock,
T e a a a.
ecret ry, City of bock
T e x a s.