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ORDINANCE NO. 234
An Ordinance regulating parking of vehicles on certain Streets and
Avenues of this City, limiting the time a vehicle may be parked thereon,
forbidding again parking on such highways under certain conditions:
providing that no vehicle shall be stopped without being parked next to the
curb in certain sections of the City; fixing penalties for violation of any
portion hereof: repealing all Ordinances and parts of Ordinances on conflict
herewith; and declaring -n emerqenoy account of hindrance to traffic.
Be it ordained by the City Commission, of the City of Lubbock, Texas.
Section 1. No vehicle shall be parked on the West side of Avenue I
between Main Street and Thirteenth Street for a longer time than thirty minutes
and, if a vehicle has been parked along such territory for thirty minutes, it
shall not be, within one hour thereafter, parked in said district.
Section 2. No person shall stop any vehicle on any paved street or avenu~
within this City, except against the curb.
Section 3. Any person convicted of violating any part of this Ordinance
shall be punished by a fine of not less than one, nor more than fifty dollars.
Section 4. The fact that the accumulation of vehicles for long periods
of time in the texritory described in Section 1, hinders orderly traffic
and stopping vehicles away from the curb is dangerous, creates an emergency
and public necessity that the rule of the charter requiring ordinances to be
read at two meetings before passage, be, and the same is, hereby suspended,
and this Ordinance be passed at the meeting of its introduction. And it is so
enacted1 and this Ordinance shall be in force from its due publication.
Passed and approved this 27th day of September, 1923.
P. Spencer
Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas.
Attest:
J. R. Germany,
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas.