HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 231-1923 - Requiring All Persons Hauling Trash, ETC For Pay. - 08/23/1923ORDINANCE NO. 231
Ordinance requiring all persons h a uling trash, waste, refuse, junk and
other similar d i scarded substances from the City of Lubbock for pay to, before
engaging in said business, procure a license therefor, and executing bond,
fixing conditions of said bond, providing penalties for violation; replacing all
ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, and declaring an
ernergenoy, account of lack of proper regulation.
Be it ordained by the City Commission (Council) of the City of Lubbock, Texa :
Section 1. No person shall haul any trash, waste, junk, refuse, or discarde
substances from the City of Lubbock for pay, except such persons which ha:v:e
previously secured from the City a pe~it to engage in such business, and
executed a bond payable to the city in the sum of $100.00, with two or more
sureties to be approved by the City Secretary, conditioned that such person
will transport the same in a sanitary manner from the place of its origin to
the dump-grounds, or place provided by the city, and deposit same at a place,
and in the manner designated by the City Health officer, and that such person
will not injure any of the property of the City. Such applicant shall pay an
annual license fee in the sum of $2.50.
Section 2. That such person shall report to the City Secretary, in writing,
on the first day of each month, showing the number of loads and parts of loads
of such substance he has hauled to the dumP-grounds, and the days he hauled s ame,
and such person shall place on the vehicle, used in such business, a number
corresponding to his permit number, and shall not remove the same.
Section 3. Any person, violatinq any provision of this ordinance, upon
conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than
$50.00, and a second conviction under the ordinance shall revoke his per.mit~
Section 4. All ordinances, and parts of ordinances, in conflict herewith
are expressly repealed.
Section 5. The fact that the dump-grounds of the city are indiscriminately
used, and used without system or regulation, endangering the property of the City
creates an emergency and public necessity that the rule of charter requiring an o
dinance to be read at two several meetings be, and the same is, hereby suspended, anc
this ordinance shall be passed at the meeting of its introduction, and effective, as
provided by law.
Passed and approved this August 23, 1923.
/sPercy Spencer
Mayor, City of Lubbock:, Texas ..
Attest: J R. Germany,
City Secre~ary, Lubbock, Texas.