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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 558-1936 - Regulating Traffic And Use Of Public Streets. - 09/24/193609-24-193lo ORDINANCE NO. 55e ~ASA~ i~~ ()-, .JI AN ORDINANCE REGUlATING TRAFFIC AND '1HE USE OF PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS OF THE C:n:TY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS; DEFINING TERMS; DECLAR]]{G CERTAIN DAYS OF THE YEAR HOLIDAYS; PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALL..I\TION, REGULATION, AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF PARKING I.ili"TERS; REQUIRING THE DEPOSIT OF COINS FOR THE USE OF PARKTITG llf£TERS AND P..ti.RKING I IETER Z6iiES; PROVIDIHG FOR THE ENFORCEl'iENT THEREOF; PROHIBITING THE USE OF PARKlllG l\lETER ZONES BEYOND THE PERIOD OF TI!I.IE FIXED BY THE Cri'Y ORDINlu'ifCES FOR SUCH PA.RKll~G SPACE, AND PROVIDING TI-I \T THE DISPIAYTIJG OF A PARKD,TG !•JETER SIGNAL SHO' . .IING Ii.T.l<:GAL PA.RKilTG :miLE A VEHICLE IS PARKED IN SUCH SP.ACE SHALL BE Pl1.TiviA FACIE EVIDEi~CE TlL'\..T SAID VEHICLE HAS BEEN' PARKED OVERTTIIiE; PRESCRIBIHG 'IfiE l:ANNER OF PARKDiJ'G VE- HICLES IN P_sillKlliG IiET :Eli. ZONES; PROH IBITING THE USE OF SUBSTITUTES FOR UNIT- ED STATES COil£ IN P1\RIITNG !~T ERS; ?ROHIBITING THE DEF"l.c·-G OR TIJ'JURING OF PARKING I(ETERS; P ROVIDI 3 G T HE FEE S CO LLECTED F.::: PARKING METERS .ARE HEREBY LEVIED .AS A PO:.ICE RE GUIJ~TIO N, SUPERVISION, AND ll'ISPECTION FEE; PROVIDTI\G FOR LOADING ZON:ES; PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTIOlT OF FUNIS DEPOSITED IN PARKING If.ETERS; DEFINING .AliD STIPULATING PARKING l.IET.ER ZOI'JE;DECI.ARIHG 'rHE PURPOSE AND OBJECT OF T.fiiS ORDTITA.NCE; REPEALIHG ORDll-r- .AliiCE& INCONSISTENT HEREUITH; PROVIDING A SAVING CLL\USE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND PROV]J)ING THE EFFECTIVE DA ~E OF T HIS ORDilif.ANCE. BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE CITY CO!.J:ISSION' OF TIIE CITY OF !DiffiOCK, TEXAS; SECTION I. The voJOrd "vehicle" as used herein shall mean any device upon or by w-hich any person or property is or may be transported upon a high1'118.y ex- cept those operated under rails or tra cks. The v~t>rd "park" or t'pa rking" when used herein shall mean the stand- ing of a vehicle, uhether occupied or not, othervvise than temporarily for the purpose of and v1hile actually eng a ged in loading or unl.ibading passen- gers or merchandise. The vJOrd "loading zone" u hen used herein shall mean a space or sec- tion of the curb set aside for the exclusive use of loading and unloadil.lB persons, supplies, or merchandise • SECTION II. That the part of streets and avenues in the City of lubbock, Texas described in Section XIliof this Ordinance is established as a parking meter zone, and in said zone and su~ other parking meter zones as may be hereafter created by ordinances of the City of Lubbock, the City is authorized to have installed parking meters and is authorized to cause parking meter space to be designated in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. \fuen signs are erected or curbs are painted, giving notice thereof, or parking meters are installed in each block, no vehicle shall remain parked for a longer period of time than sixty (60) minutes at any time between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P • .M. of any day except Sundays and holidays officially set by the City Council vnthin the district or upon any of the streets and avenues described in Sectionlllcrof this Ordinance. In this connection the follo\~ng days of the year are hereby declared to be legal holidays: January 1st, July 4th, November 11th, December 25th, and all days appointed by the President of the United States or by the Governor or Texas as days of fasting and thanksgiving. SECTION III. The City Manager, or such other officers or employees of the City of Lubbock as he may select, are hereby authorized to install or place park- ing meters in such parking meter zone hereby created or to be created by other ordinances of the City of Lubbock. Such parking meters shall be placed upon the curb along side of or next to individual parking places to be designated, as hereinafter provided. Each said parking meter shall be so set as to show or display a signal that the parking space along side of same is or is not in use. J The City Manager, or such officers or employees above referred to, shall provide for tbe installation, regulation, control, operation, and use of the parking meters provided for in this Ordinance, and shall main- tain said meters in gpod workable condition; each said parking meter shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of a 5i coin of the United States ~erein for a period of time conforming to the parking limits now or hereinafter provided by the Ordinances of the City of Lubbock for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed, ~ and each meter shall, by its device, clearly set out and continue in opera- tion from the tiroo of depositing such coin until the expiration of time fixed by said Ordinances as the parking limit for the part of the street upon which said meter is placed; each said meter shall also be so arranged that upon the expiration of said parking limit it will indicate, by a mechanical operation and the appearance of proper signal, that the lawrul parking period as fixed by the ordinances of the City of lubbock has expired. SECTION IV. When any vehicle shall be parked in any place along side of or next to which there is located, under this Ordinance, a parking meter, the owner, operator, manager, or driver of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking space, tmmediately deposit a 5¢ coin of the United States in the parking meter along side of or next to said parking space, and the said parking space may then be used by such vehicle during the parking limit provided by the ordinances of the City of Lubboc~or the part of the street in which said parking space is located. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond the parking limit fixed by the ordinances of the City of Lubbock for such parking space, the parking meter shall display a sign showing illegal parking and in that event such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime and beyond the period of time fixed by the ordinances of the City of Lubbock and the parking of a vehicle overtime or beyond the time fixed now or hereafter by the ordinances of the City of Lubbock in any such part of the street where any such meter is located shall be a violation of this Ordinance and punished as hereinafter set out. It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, :permit, or suffer any such vehicle registered in his or another's name or under his control to be :parked overtime or beyond the lawrul period of time as above described. SECTION V. It shall be unlawrul and an offense for any person to permit a vehicle under his control to remain or be placed in any parking space along side of or next to which any parking !lleter is placed uhile said meter is dis- playing a signal showing that such vehicle shall have been alrea~r parked beyond the period of time fixed by the ordinances of the City of Lubbock for such parking space. That the displaying of a sign shoving _·illegal parking by any parking meter while a vehicle is parked in a parking space adjoining said parking meter shall be prima facie evidence that said vehicle has been :parked ove~time and beyond the period of time fixed by the ordinances of the City of t.ubbock. SECTION VI. It shall be the duty of each police officer or traffic patrolman to take the number of any meter by vihich any vehicle is overparked, as pro- vided in this Ordinance, the state vehicle license number of such vehicle, the time and date of such overparking, and the make of such vehicle and issue in wrtting, on a form provided by the City, a notice to the owner, operator, or person in charge of such vehicle to answer to a charge of overparking within five days thereafter during the hours and at the place specified in such notice, and to file a conplaint for any sue~ violation in the Corporation Court of said City. -2 - SECTION VII. The City Manager, or such officers or employees of the City of Lubbock as he may select, shall place lines or marks on the curb and/or the street about or along side of each parking meter to designate the parking space for which said meter is to be used, and each vehicle parked along side of or next to any parking meter shall park within the lines or markj_ngs so established. All vehicles shall be parked at an angle of 45° to said park- ing meter and the front of said parked vehicle shall point towards said parking meter. It shall be unlawful and an offense to park any vehicle across any such line or mark or to park said vehicle in such ~my that the same shall not be V>'ithin the area so designated by such lines or marks. SECTION VIII. The City Manager, or such officers or employees as he may designate, are hereby authorized to establish such loading zones as are necessary for the conducting of business, to omit parking meters from such loading zones, and to properly designate by signs and mark such loading zones. No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a loading zone for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers for a period Jfln excess of two minutes. The use of loading zones for the loading or unloading or merchandise shall be confined to the handling of heavy or bulky materials. All such loading or unloading must be performed in an expeditious manner, and no vehicle may remain in a loading zone for a period of time greater than necessary to expeditiously load or unload same, nor while the operator thereof is soliciting or engaged otherwise than in the loading or unloading of the vehicle, except that a reasonable time shall be allo\~d for securing a receipt of deli very. The use of meter spaces for loading or unloading merchandise, as defined above, wi 11 be permitted before the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. without the depositing of a coin in the parking meter of such space, except that the vehicle must load or unload centered as nearly as possible in a single metered space and in the manner above described. SECTION IX. It shall be unlawful and an offense to deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device, or substitute for a 5¢ coin of the United States. SECTION X. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any unauthorized person to deface, injure, tamper with, open, or wilfully break, destroy, or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the terms of this Ordinance. SECTION XI. The 5¢ coins required to be deposited as provided herein are hereby levied as a police regulation, supervision, and inspection fee to cover the cost of inspection, supervision, and regulation involved in the inQ stallation, operation, inspection, control, upkeep, and use of the park- ing spaces and parking meters, described herein, and involved in checking up and regulating ~he parking of vehicles in the parking meter zone created hereby. SECTION XII. It sball be the duty of the City Manager to designate some employee or employees of the City of Lubbock to make regular collections of money deposited in said meters. In this connection it shall be the duty of such persons so designated to pick up the sealed cylinders containing the coins as deposited in the meters and deliver such cylinders 'llvi th the seals un- broken to the City Manager. It shall be the duty of the City .lvlanager to -3- break the seals and count the funds and deposit same to the credit of the City of Lubbock in a special fund called "Parking Meter Fund," which said fund shall be disbursed on the order of the City Commission. That the duties prescribed to the officer and/or officers of the City of Lubbock under ter.ms of this section shall be in addition to their regular duties which they are now performing. SECTION ZITI. A Pa.rking l!Ieter ?Dne No. 1 is hereby created and established on the following streets and avenues, limiting parking to sixty (60) minutes as follOVTS: STREE:T Broadway Broadway Main Uain 'l'exas A venue Texas Avenue Avenue n;rn EXTENT From Ava. "Hn to Texas Ave. From Texas Ave. to Ave. "L" From Ave. "H" to Texas Ave. From Te :x::a s Ave • to Ave • n J" From 13th St. to Broadway From Broadway to I~in From 13th St. to I~in SECTION XTV. SIDE South only Both North only Both Both "ilest only Both The object and purpose of this Ordinance is to regulate and control the traffic and the parking of vehicles within said parking zone for the safety, convenience, and protection of the general public in the lawful use and enjoyment of said streets and avenues. SECTION XV. This Ordinance shall be and is hereby declared to be cumulative of all other ordinances of the City of Lubbock effecting traffic and the park- ing of vehicles and shall not operate to repeal or effect any such ordinance or ordinances except insofar as the provisions of such ordinance or ordinances are inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance, in 'vhich instance or instances those provisions shall be and they are hereby repealed. SECTION XVI. If any section or provision, or part thereof, in this Ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such adjudication shall not effect the validit,r of the Ordinance as a whole olD of any section, provision, or part the reef not adjudged i."lvalid or unconstitutional. SECTION XVII. Any person, fir.m, association, or corporation who shall violate or per.mit, suffer, or allow anyone in their emplo~ent or under their con- trol to violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offense, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not to exceed $100.00. SECTIOlT XVIII. This Ordinance shall take effect and. be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and publication as required by la\'r. -4- ~ Passed and approved first reading this the~-day of _ __..!Se.::.:.~P..:..t~e"'mi&Jb~e""',r...__ A.D. 1936. Passed and approved second and final reading this 8th day of Oct. A.D. 1936 .