HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 565-1937 - Defining An Ambulance, Regulating The Speed Within The City - 06/10/1937. . -.......--.
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' ~ AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AN AMBULANCE# REGULATING THE SPEED THEREOF
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, FIXING A PENALTY
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF., DECLARING THE ORDINANCE TO BE A SAFM'Y
MEASURE PASSED IN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC WELFARE AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1.
An ambulance is hereby declared to be an emergency motor
vehicle used for the purpose of conveying the sick and injured.
SECTION 2.
When answering an emergenc7 call, it shall be unlawful
for any person to drive er operate an ambulance in the corporate
limits of the City of Lubbock at a greater rate of speed than 40
miles per hour.
SECTION 3.
When not answeriDg an emergency call, it shall be unl.awtu.l
for any person to drive or operate an ambulance Within the corporate
limits of the City of Lubbock at a greater rate ot speed than 20
miles per hour.
SECTION 4.
When answering emergency calls, any person who drives or
operates an ambulance at a greater 2ate of speed than 40 miles per
hour within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock, Texas, shall
be punished by a tine in any amount not to exceed $100.00
SECTION 5.
When not answering an emergency call, any person who drives
or operates an ambulance at a greater rate of speed than 20 miles per
hour within the corporate l1m1 ts of th~ City of Lubbock, Texas, aha1l
be punished by a tine in any amount not to exceed $loo.oo.
SECTION 6.
This ordinance is hereby declared to be a safety measure,
its purpose being to preserve the lite, limb and ~operty of all per-
sons within the corporate limits of the City ot Lubbock, Texas.
SECTION 7.
The tact tbat the City of Lubbock has no ordinance regulat-
ing the speed of ambulances in the city limits~ and the fact that
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ambulaneestare ..-~driving at a high and excessive rate ot speed,
threatening and endangering the 11f'e. 11mb and property of citizens
within the corporate li~ts of' the City of' Lubbock. create an emer-
gency and an imperative public necessity that this act take effect
immediately upon its ~esage alld publication f'or one time 1n a
newspaper of' general circUlation published 1n the Cit7 of' Lubbockâ˘
Lubbock Count}". Texas.
Passed and Approved by unanimous vote of' the Cit7 Com-
mission. a quorum being present. at a regular session of' said coa-
mission. this l Oth
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