HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 291-1925 - Regulating Vehicle Traffic, And Furnishing Supplies And Repairs To Motor Vehicle - 04/10/1925ORDINANCE NO. 291
AN ORDINANCE FURTHER REGULATING VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, AND 'IRE FURNISHING
SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS TO MOTOR VEHICLES IN CERTAIN PLACES AND CERTAIN
CONDITIONS, IN THIS CITY, FORBIDDING CONTAINERS FOR GREASE OR OIL
STATIONED ON THE SIDEWALr; SO niAT NO MOTOR VEinCLE SHALL BE SERVED
WITH ANY SUPPLIES OR REPAIRS WHII;E ANY PORTION OF SAME, OR ITS LOAD,
IS ON OR OVER ANY PART OF A SIDEWALIC, OR WHILF; THE SAME IS ON ANY PAV-
ED STREET AT A PLACE MORE THAN TWELVE INCHES FRCH mE CURB, AND FIXING
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION HEREOF, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS
OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY ACOOUNT
OF THE DANGER TO THE PUBLIC FRCM MOTOR VEHICLES BEING SERVED IN THE LINE
OF TRAFFIC OF OTHER VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS, AND 'IRE FILTH FRcM OIL
AND GREASE CONTAINERS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ( cnfMISSION) OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCJC, TEXAS.
Section 1. No person shall, within th\ corporate limits of this City
A. Serve or supply or aid in serving or supplying, any motor
vehicle with oil, grease, gas, air, water, or repairs, whi~e
any portion of such vehicles or the body or load thereof, is
on, over or across any sidewalk, or within twelve inches of
the inside line of such sidewalk, or
B. Serve or supply any replacements or repairs, gas, oil, water
or grease to any motor vehicle while on any paved street in
this City, except such vehicles shall be within twelve inches
of the curb.
Section 2. No person shall keep1 or permit any container for oil or
grease on a ny sidewalk in this City, and any person serving a motor
vehicle from such container shall be considered as keeping and permit-
ting the same to be kept on such premises.
Section 3. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict here-
with are expressly repeal ed.
Section 4. Any person violating any portion of this Ordinance shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars
nor more than Two Hundred Dollars.
Section 5. That fact that has become the custom to supply motor
vehicles with the commodities mentioned in Section 1 hereof, while such
vehicles are in places so situated that the traffic is blocked and the
public inconvenienced1 and that dirt and grease accumulate on the con-
tainers mentioned, and the consequent danger to the public from such
practices, create1s an emergency and public necessity that the rule of
the Charter requiring Ordinances to be read at more than one meeting,
be, and the same is hereby suspended, and this Ordinance enacted
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at the meeting of its introduction, and same shall be effective immediately
upon publication,· and 1 t is so enacted •.
The foregoing Ordinance passed by a unanimous vote on April 10, 1925.
F. R. Friend, Mayor
Attest:
J. R. Germany, City Secretary.