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11-15-1931-
12-09-1931
ORDINANCE NO. 57 S
I jAN ORDINANCE TO BE KNOWN AS "TRAFFIC ORDINANCE", REGULATING
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KEHIOULAR AND .P.EDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS, REQUIRING
OBEDIENCE TO ,TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND LAWFUL ORDERS OF CITY POLICEMEN;
PROHIBITING DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS AND MARKINGS AND THE
INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES; PROVIDING FOR RIGHT
OF WAY RULES; PROHIBITING THE EQ.UIP.MENT OF CERrrAIN VEHICLES WITH EMERGENCY
SIGNALS; PROHIBITING MOTOR VEHICLE TO STAND UNATTENDED UNDER CERTAIN CON-
DITIONS; PROHIBITING THE DRIVING OF A VEHICLE UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS;
REGULATING VEHICLES LOADING WITH NIATERIAL EXTENDING BEYOND THE REAR OF
SUCH VEHICLE; PROHIBITING THE CROSSING OF FIRE HOSE; PROHIBITING THE
THROWING OF NAILS, WIRE, GLASS, ~ANS, ETC. IN THE STREET; REQUIRING
CERTAIN VEHICLES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH LAMPS AND/OR LIGHTS; PRESCRIBING
RULES AND REGULATIONS IN ACCIDENTS AND NEGLIGENT COLLISIONS; PRESCRIBING
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PEDESTRIANS; REGULATING MOVING VEHICLES AND
PROVIDING SAFETY ZONES, AND PROHIBITING BOARDING AND ALIGHTING FROM ANY
MOVING VEHICLE AND PROHIBITING THE RIDING ON OUTSIDE OF MOTOR VEHICLE;
PROHIBITING THE DRIVING THROUGH A SAF.ETYZONE; REQUIRING MOTOR VEHICLES
TO BE E~UIPPED WITH HEADLIGHTS AND CERTAIN SAFETY ~UIP:MENT; AUTHORIZING
CITY COMMISSION TO DESIGNATE SAFETY, ~UIET AND SICK ZONES AND THE PLACE FOR
THE LOCATION OF SIGNS AND SIGNALS; REGULATING AND DESIGNATING THE PLACE FOR
LOADING AND UNLOADING PASSENGERS ON AND FROM BUSSES; PROHIBITING THE PAINT-
ING AND MARKING OF STREETS AND THE ERECTION OF SIGNS PROEIBITING PARKING;
PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF A VEHICLE WHICH EXTENDS MORE THAN 20 FEET INTO
THE STREET; .R~uUJ:Jt.TJ;JqG. THE USE OF VEHICLES ~UIPPED WITH RADIO, LOUD SPEAKER
OR SOUND DEVICE FOR ADVERTISING. PURPOSES; PROHIBITING THE USE OF LOUD SPEAKER
OR AMPLIFIER FOR ADVERTISING AND ENTERTAINING PURPOSES; PROHIBITING THE USE
OF BRASS BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS ON SIDEWALKS AND STREETS FOR ADVERTISI·NG;
PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDIN-
ANCE SHALL NOT REPEAL PARKING METER ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PRESCRIBING THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE;
AND PROVIDiNG FOR UNCONSTITUTIONALITY CLAUSE.
BE IT BBBILDD BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK AS BOLLOWS:
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
ARTICLE I.
WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
The following words and phrases~ when used in this Ordinance,
shall, for the purpose of this ordinance, have the meaning respectively
ascribed to them:
ALLb~: Any street _ as herein defined having no regular or
official name other than "alley" of 20 feet or less in width.
AUTHORIZEu EM~~~~NCY V~HIC~~: Vehicles of the Pire uepart-
ment, police vehicles and such Rmbulances and emergency vehicles of
municipal departments of public service corporations as are designated
or authorized by the City of Lubbock.
BUSINE~S VISTRICT: ~he territory contiguous to and including
a street, roadway or highway when fifty per cent or more of the frontage
thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in
use for business.
CROS~-WALKS: That portion or a street, roadway or highway
ordinarily included within the elongation or connection of the lateral
lines of sidewalks at intersections. Any portion of a st~eet, roadway
or highway distinctly indicated for pedestrians crossing by lines or
other markings on the surface.
CURH: The edge of a street, roadway or highway.
DOUBLE PARK; The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, upon a street, roadway or highway in rear of a vehicle parked with
the front end to the curb of said street, roadway or highway, or along
side of a vehicle parked parallel with the curb of said street, roadway
or highway.
DRlV~: Every person who drives or is in actual physical
control of a vehicle or assumes control of a vehicle.
INTERS~CTiu~: The area embraced within the elongation or con-
nection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary
lines of two or more streets, roadways or highways which join one another
at, or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles
traveling upon different streets, roadways or highways joining at any
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other angle may come in conflict where one such street, roadway or high-
way crosses the other.
LIMIT L!N~~; ~ounaaries of parking areas, loading zones,
safety or danger zones, cross-walks and lines marked for the purpose of
excluding traffic and parking.
MOTOR V~HI~~: Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
NEuL~GENC~: Negligence is the want of such care end caution
as a person of ordinary prudence would use under like circumstances.
OFFICIAL TIME: Whenever certain hours are named herein,
they shall mean uentral ~tandard Time.
OFFICIAL TRAFFIC GvNTROL DEV1U~~: All signs, signals, mark•
ings and devices not inconsistent with this ordinance, placed or erected
by authority of the 01 ty of Lubbock for the purpose ot regulating, dir-·
ecting, warning or guiding tra1'.f1e.
TRAFF~u tiiUNAL: Any device, whether manually, electrically
or meChanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to
stop and to proceed.
OP~RAToR: Any person in control of or who assumes control
of any kind of vehicle.
OWNER: Any person, firm, co-partnership, association or cor-
poration, who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or who has the legal
right of possession thereof, or the legal right of control of said
vehicle.
PARK: The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not,
otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged
in loading or unloading.
PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot.
PER~ON: Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, associa-
tion or corporation.
POLIC~ OFFlC~tt:Every officer of the municipal police depart-
ment or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic~ or to make
arrests for violations of vrdinances of the uity of Lubbock and the Laws
of the State of Texas.
PRIVAT~ ROAD OR DRIV~ WAY: Every way or place in private
ownership and used tor vehicular travel by the owner and those having ex-
pressed or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons,
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and not open to the use of the public for purposes or vehicular traffic.
PUBLIC PLAuE: A place where people are assembled or to which
people commonly resort for purposes of business~ amusement, recreation
or other lawfUl purposes, and for the purpose of this ordinance, the
term "Public Place" shall include all streets and alleys within the cor-
porate limits of the City of Lubbock.
RESID~T DJ.ST.tUCT: The territory contiguous to and including
a street, roadway or highway not comprising a bus !ness district, when
the property on such street, roadway or highway for a distance of 300 feet
or more is more than fifty per cent improved with dwellings used for
resident . purposes.
R~G~T-vF-WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of a
street~ roadway or highway.
SAb~~Y ~uNM: Area or space officially set apart within a
street, roadway or highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians, and which
is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signa as to be
elearly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
SID~WALKS: That portion of a street between the curb lines,
and the lateral lines of a street, roadway or highway, and maintained
for the use of pedestrians.
SLOW S~tiNS: This term as herein used shall be held to mean
signs bearing upon their face the word "Slow".
TRAFFlG: By this term is meant pedestrians, ridden or herded
animals, vehicles or other conveyances, either singly or together, while
using any street, roadway or hignway for purpodes of traffic.
VEH!C~: Every device in, upon or by which any person or pro-
perty is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, roadway or highway.
ARTICLE II.
nE~UIR~ OBEDIE~CE TO T~A~F~u R~UULATIONS.
Section 1. Required obedience to traffic vrdinance:
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to do any
act forbidden, or fail to perform any act required by this vrdinance.
Section 2. Obedience to Police: It Shall be unlawful for
any person to wilfully fail or retuse to comply with any lawful order or
direction, whether given in person or by means of fixed or audible signals
of a police officer, or in the event of a fire or other emergency, or
any member of the fire or police department.
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Section 3. Exemptions to authorized emergency vehicles:
The provisions of this ordinance regulating the operation, parking and
standing of vehicles, shall apply to authorized emergency vehicles as de-
fined in this ordinance except as follows: A driver when operating any such
vehicle in an emergency, except when otherwise directed by a polio~ officer,
may (1) Park or stand, notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance;
(2) Exceed the speed limit, provided however, no ambulance shall at any
time exceed 40 miles per hou~; and (3) Disregar~ regulations governing
direction of movement or turning in ape cirted directions so long as this 1 a
done in a careful manner so as not to indanger life or property.
Section 4: Regulations: Every person propelling any push
cart or riding a bicycle or an animal upon a street, roa'dway or highway,
and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the
provisions or this ordinance applicable to the driver of any vehicle, ex-
cept those provisions of this ordinance, Which by their very nature can
have no application.
Ali'l'.lCLE III.
O~D~ENv~ To TRA~~C Cv~TRvL D~V.lO~S
Section 1. Obedience to vfticial Traffic Control Devices:
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
police officer of the City of Lubbock, control devices placed in accorda~e
with the traffic ordinances or by authority of the City of Lubbock, unless
otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted
the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this ordinance.
Section 2. Obedience to no-turn signs and Turning Markers:
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no
right or left or "u" turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall dis-
obey the directions of any such sign, and when authorized marks or other
indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be
traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vEhicle shall disobey
the directions of such signs, marks or other indications.
Section 3. ~uiet Zone:
(a) Whenever authorized signs are erected in a quiet zone
or sick zone, no person operating a motor vehicle within any such zone shall
sound the horn or other warning device of said vehicle except in an emergency.
(b) All the otreets, avenues and alleys adjacent to the pre-
mises of any hospital in the City of Lubbock is hereby created and estab-
lished as a quiet zone.
Section 4. Traffic ~ontrol Signal Legend:
Whenever traffic is controlled by trarfic control signals
exhibiting the words "go", 11-i&'tlbles1 or "Stop", or exhibiting different
colored lights successively, the fo~lowing colors only shall be used, and
said terms and lights shall indicate as follows:
(a) Green alone or "aott: When the signal is a green light
or the word "uo", v ehicular traf'fic facing the signal may proceed straight
through or turn right or left, unless a sign at such place prohibits either
or both such turns. tlUt vehicular traffic shall yield the right of way to
other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection at the
time such signal is exhibited. Pedestrians approaching the intersection
may proceed across tne street, roadway or highway within any marked or un-
marked c~oss-walk in the direction vehicular traffic is permitted to travel.
~ Xellew e:lone 01" 0 0atttion°. Wfieft tlfl:e BigR&l is a ,.allow
H@:R.t or the woPCI "Csut1o:g,11 ·.vheu shown !olloWlng or overlapping the green
Hght or t ,ae "so" signal, weeielilAI" eraft1c fae1ng the s1gR&Il &Bell "'"'8top
before anter1llg the nea:re-st ePoaswwalk at the intepaee"W...o.n..
Pe4esi:rians J'l"Oeeedi!lg in the direction of or approaching
wee aigaal shall remain on the ca:xhw
(j) Red alone or "Stop": When the signal is a red light or
the word "Stop", vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop before en-
tering the nearest cross-walk at an intersection, or at such other point
as may be indicated by a clearly visible line, aDi shall remain standing
until the green light or the word "Go" is shown alone.
When sign reading "right turn on red", vehicular traffic may
turn right on red signals, but only after having first come to a complete
stop at the nearest cross-walk before entering the intersection, and then
only when such right turn does not interfere with pedestrians or other
traffic.
(~) Pedestrians must stop on red light or "Stop" signa~:
No pedestrian proceeding in the directi~n of or approaching
such signal shall enter the street, roadway or highway as long as saia
light is red or the wora "stop" is visible.
Section 5. Display of unauthorized signs~ signals or markings:
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It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain or
display upon or in view or any street, roadway or highway any unauthorized
sign, signal, marking or device, which purports to be or is an imitation
of or resembles an official traffic control device, or which attempts to
direct the movement or traffic, or which hides from view or interre~
with the e~ctiveness of any official traffic control device or signal,
and no person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority per-
mit upon any street, roadway or highway within the City limits of the City
of Lubbock, a~ traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon pri-
vate property adjacent to a street, roadway or highWay of signs giving
useful directional information, and or a type that cannot be mistaken for
official signs. Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance, and the Gity o.f Lubbock is hereby em-
powered to remove the same or cause it to be removed Without notice.
Section s. Interference with official traffic control
devices:
No per son s ha 11, without lawfUl au thor! ty, at tempt to or 1n
fact, alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic
control device, sign or signal, or any inscription, seal or insignia there-
on or any other part thereor.
ART.u;u; IV.
STu~~TANDlNu AND PARKING
Section 1. rrohibiting parking in certain places:
When signs prohibiting parking are erected on any street,
roadway or highway, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated
place.
Section 2. No stopping or parking near hazardous or congested
places:
When signs are erected or curbs painted upon approach to
hazardous or congested places, indicating no parking, no person shall stop,
stand or park a vehicle in any such designated place.
Section 3. rrohibiting parking adjacent to Schools when
official signs or markings forbid:
When signs are erectea or curbs are paintea, indicating no
parking upon either slue of the streets adjacent to any school property,
no person sh.al1 park a vehicle in any such designated place.
Sect~on 4. All night parking prohibited: ~ tt..?
No person -.ee,r plijlitiltli vn: an:IUI'itftOJ •La shal7parked
i v.ehicle on any paved street f::ar.r a pe!'i:od: of tme longer +.tran 60 m1IIUt~s
between the hours of 2 A. M. and 6 A. M.
Section 5. Unlawful parking:
No person shall stand or ·park a vehicle, and no owner shall
permit or suffer any vehicle belonging to such owner to stand or he parked
upon any street, roadway or highway for the purpose of {1) displaying it
for sale, and (2) washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except
repairs necessitated by an emergency.
Section 6. Using vehicles for primary purpose or advertising
prohibited:
No person shall operate or park on any street, roadway or
highway, any vehicle, and no owner shall suffer or permit any vehicle be-
longing to such owner to be operated or parked for the primary purpose of
advertising.
Section?. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in
specified places:
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when
necessary to avoid cont•lict with other traffic, or in compliance with the
direction of a police orficer or traffic control device, in any of the
following places:
{a) On a sidewalk;
\(b) In front of a public or private drive way;
(c) ntthin an intersection;
(d) Within 5 feet of a :fire hydrant;
(e) On a cross-walk;
(f) Within 4 feet or a cross walk at an intersection;
(g) Within 10 teet of a drive way entranee to any fire sta-
tion and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station
within 25 feet or said entrance;
(h) Along side of or opposite any street, roadway or highway
excavation or oostruction, when such stopping, standing or parking would
obstruct and impede the movement of traffic;
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at the edge or curb or a street, roadway or highway;
(~) At any place where OI'ficial signs prohibit stopping;
ur) Upon any street, roadway or highway or at any place
thereon at any time when signs are painted on the curb or erected, showing
a loaning zone, except it be for the purpose of loading or unloading as
herein provided.
<!) No person shall move a vehicle not ownea by such person
into any such prohibited area or away from a place where it is lawfully
parked.
Section a. Driving through processions:
No driver or a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles cam-
prising a funeral procession while it is in motion.
Section 9. Limitation on turning around:
It shall be unlawful for any person to turn a vehicle so as
to proceed in the opposite direction, except where said street, roadway
or highway is crossed or makes intersection with another street, roadway or
highway.
Section 10. Limitation on backing:
It shall be unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to back the
same into an intersection.
Section 11. Emerging from ana entering into alley or pri-
vate driveway:
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or .
building shall stop such vehicle 1mmeaiately prior to driving onto a side
walk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alley-way, and upon
entering the street, roadway or highway, shall yield the right-of-way to
all vehicles approaching on said roadway, highway or street.
Section 12. Emerging from and entering into alley or pr1-
vate drive way:
Any vehicle emerging from an alley, private drive-way or
building within any business district shall make a right hand turn, except
garbage vehicles, which may proceed straight ahead. It shall be unlawfUl
and an orfense to make a left hand turn upon emerging from any alley, drive-
way or building within a business district.
Section 13. Vehicles shall not be driven on the sidewalk:
It shall be unlawful for a driver of a vehicle to arive across
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or upon any sidewalk area, except at a ~ rmanent or temporary driveway.
Section 14: Attaching to moving vehicles prohibited:
It shall be unlawful for any person riding upon any bicycle1
motorcycle, coaster, sled, roller skates or any vehicle of any kind, to
attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any street, roadway
or highway.
Section 15. Riding on rtandlebars prohibited:
The operator or a motorcycle or bicycle, when used on a
street, roadway or highway, shall not carry any other perso.n upon the handle-
bars, frame or tank of any such vehicle, nor shall any person so ride upon
any such vehicle.
Section 16. Use of Coasters, Roller Skates and Similar
Devices Restricted:
No person upon Roller skates or riding on or by means of
any coaster1 toy vehicle, or similar device shall go upon any street, road-
way or highway, except while crossing a street, roadway ar highway at a
c.ross-walk.
Section 17. Prohibiting Intoxicated Person from Driving
Motor Vehicle.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to drive
or operate a motor vehicle upon any street, roadway or highway or alley
within the limits of the City of Lubbock while such person is intoXicated
from the immoderate use of spiritous, vinous and malt liquors.
Section 18. Reckless Driving Prohibited:
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to drive
any vehicle on any street, roadway, highway or alley within the city limits
of the City of Lubbock in such a manner as to indicate either a willful
or wanton disregard for the safety of other persons or property.
Section 19. Speed Limited to Twenty Miles per Hourl
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate a
motor vehicle upon any street, roadway or highway in the city limits of
the City of Lubbock at a greater rate of speed than 20 miles per hour.
Section 20. Requir~ng vehicles to be Driven on Right Side
of Street:
The driver or operator of any vehicle shall drive the same
upon the right half of the street, roadway or highway except:
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(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicJ.e proceeding
in the same direction, as made and provided by the Laws of the State of
Texas governing such movement.
(b) When the right half of a street, roadway or highway is
closed to traffic while under construction or repair.
Section 21. Regulating the passing of vehicle traveling in
opposite direction:
The drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions
shall pass each other on the right. Each driver shall give to the other at
least one-half of the main traveled portiond such street, roadway or high-
way they are driving on.
Section 22. Regulating the passing of an overtaken vehicle:.
The !'ollowing rules shall govern the overtaking and passing
of vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to the limitations~
exceptions and rules hereinafter stated:
(a) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle pro-
ceeding in the same direction, shall pass to the left, and at a safe dis-
tance, and shall not again drive to the right side of the street, roadway
or highway until he has cleared the overtaken vehicle a distance of ~ot
less than 12 feet.
· (b) When overtaking ani passing on the right is permitted,
the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give way to the rlght in favor of
the overtaking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle
until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
Section 23. Regulating the passing of an overtaken vehicle:
No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center
of the street, roadway or highway in overtaking and passing another vehicle
proceeding in the same direction unless such left side is clearly visible,
and is free of on"coming trarfic for a sufficient aistance ahead to permit
such overtaking and passing to be completely made without interfering
with the safe operation of any vehicle approaching from the opposite dir-
ection. In every such case, the overtaking vehicle must return to the right
hand side of the roadway before coming within 75 feet of any vehicle
approaching from the opposite direction.
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Section 24. Prohibiting the Passing of a Vehicle on the
No vehicle shall, in overtaking and passing another vehicle,
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pass the overtaken vehicle on the righ t.
Section 2~ Turning at Intersections:
The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection
shall do so as follows:
(a) Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall
be made as close as practicable to the right band curb or edge of the street,
roadway or highway. Intention of executing a right turn shall be announced
by hand signals prior to executing such turn by extending th3 left arm
outward and upward.
(b) The approach for a left turn shall be made 1n that por-.
tion of the right halr of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and
after entering the intersection, the let't turn shall be naae so as to leave
the intersection to the right of the center line of the street, roadway or
highway being entered. lntention of executing a left turn shall be announced
by hand signal prior to executing such turn by extending the left arm outward.
{c) operators signals:
No operator of a vehicle shall suddenly start or stop or
attempt to turn without first giving a suitable signal as herein provided
and in such a manner as to appraise others who might be affected by his
actions. The signal for stopping shall be given by extending the left arm
outward and downward.
Section 26. nuta Turn prohibited:
It shall be unlawf'u.l for any driver of a vehicle to make a
"u" turn at any intersection where there are official signs prohibiting the
making of "u" turns.
Section 2?. Prohibiting motor vehicles traveling in the same
direction from passing at intersections:
It shall be unlawfUl for the driver or any motor vehicle to
pass any motor vehicle traveling in the same direction at any street interM
section within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock •
.ARTICLK VI.
RIGHT OF WAY RULt;S
Section 1. Vehicles approaching or entering Intersections:
(a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall
yield the right or way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection rram
a different street, roadway or highway.
(b) When two vehicles enter an intersection from dirferent
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streets, roadways or highways at the same ttme, the driver of the vehicle
on the left shall yield the right of way to the other.
Section 2. Vehicles Turning Let't at lntersections:
The driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to
turn to the lef't shall yield the right of way to any vehicle approaching
from the op posite direction, which is within the intersection, or so close
thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver having so
yielded and having given a signal when aDd as required by this Ordinance,
may make such left turn, and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching
the intersection from said opposite direction shall yield the right of way
to the vehicle making the left turn.
Section 3. Operation ot· Vehicles on approach of authorized
Emergency Vehicles:
Upon the approach or an authorized emergency vehicle and the
driver is giving audible signals by sirens or bells, the driver of every
other vehicle shall yield the rigbt of way, and shall immediately drive to
a portion parallel to ana as close to the right hand edge or curb of the
street, roadway or highway, clear of any intersection, and .shall stop and
remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed,
except when otherwise airected by a police officer. This section shall not
operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the
duty to drive with due regard tor the safety of all persons using the streets,
roadways or highways.
ARTILiU!: VII.
MISCELLANEOuS Run;s
Section 1. ~ehicles not to be equipped with l:!tnergency Signals:
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership,
association or corporation to operate or cause to be operated any vehicle
upon a public street, roadway or highway, or other public places in the
City of Lubbock when said vehicle is equipped with a bell or siren such as
is usually associated with the public fire aparatuses or other emergency
vehicles, or has attached to the front thereof red lights, provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to aux-
iliary equipment maintained by public utilities designed to aid or assist
the Fire Department to prevent or suppress fires or explosions, and police
cars and ambulances.
Section 2. Unattended Motor Vehicle:
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No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall per-
mit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the
ignition eud rem~•lng kfii li 2tt, and when standing upon any perceptible grade,
without effectively setting the brakes thereon, and turning the front wheels
to the curb on the aide or the street, roadway or highway.
Section 3. Obstruction to Driver's view or Driving Mechanism:
(a) No person shall drive a vehicle When it is so loaded,
or when there are in the front seat such number of persons exceeding three,
as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front_or sides of the vehicle,
or as to interfere with the driver's control of the driving mechanism of
such vehicle.
(b) No passenger in a vehicle shall ride in such position
as to interfere with the driver's view ahead, or to the sides, or to inter-
fere with his control of the driving mechanism of said vehicle.
(c) No one-passenger motorcycle shall be ridden within the
city of Lubbock by more than one person at a time, and no person while rid-
ing upon any one-passenger motorcycle within the City of Lubbock shall at
any time carry or permit any other person to ride upon said motorcycle.
Section 4. Load ~tending behind the Vehicle:
It shall be unlawfUl for any operator of any vehicle to load
such vehicle with any material extending beyond the rear of -such vehicle,
unless a red flag not less than 12 inches in widDh and 12 inches in length
is displayed in the day time, and a red light, visible under normal atmos-
pheric conditions for 500 feet, is displayed at night at the point of great-
est projection of such material extending beyond the rear of the vehicle.
Section 5. Following Fire Apparatuses prohibited:
The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm
closer than 600 feet, or drive into or park such vehicle within the block
where a fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
Section 6. Crossing Fire Hose Prohibited:
No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the
Fire department when laid down on e.ny street, roadway or highway, or private
drive way, to be used at any fire or e.le.rm of fire, without the direction
of the fire department official in command.
Section 7. rrohibiting throwing of glass, nails, tacks,
wire, cans, etc.:
(a) No person shall throw or deposit upon any ftreet, roadway
or highway, any glass bottles, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans or any other
substance capable of injuring any person, animal or vehicle using such
street, road~ay or highway.
(b) Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown
~upon any street, roadway or highway, any material of any kind capable of
injuring any person, animal or vehicle shall immediately remove or cause the
same to be removed from said street, roadway or highway.
{c) Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a
street, roadway or highway shall remove any glass and all other materials
that are torn loose and found lying upon said street, roadway or highway at
the place of such wrecked vehicle.
Section 8~ Requiring Bicycles to be Equipped with Lamps:
~very bicycle ridden at night by any person shall be equipped
with a lamp on the front exhibiting a white light visible for a distance
of at least 500 teet to the front, and with a lamp on the rear exhibiting
a red light visible for a distance of 500 feet to the rear, except that a
red reflector may be used in lieu of a rear light.
Section 9. Requiring Every Motor Vehicle to be Equipped with
lights:
Every Motor vehicle while on the public streets, roadways or
highways of the City of Lubbock, when in operation, during one-halt hour
after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, and at all times when tog or
other atmospheric conditions render the operation of such vehicle unusually
dangerous to traffic and the use of the highway, shall carry at the front at
least two lighted lamps or headlights, showing white lights visible under
normal atmospheric conditions at least 500 feet in the distance in Which
said motor vehicle is facing, and shall also carry at the rear a lighted
lamp or tail light, exhibiting a red light plainly visible for a distance
of 500 teet to the rear.
ART~CLM VIII.
ACCIDENTS
Section 1. Negligent Collision.
No person driving or operating or in charge of any motor ve-
hicle, animal or any other vehicle, shall by negligence cause or suffer or
permit the same to come in collision with any other vehicle of any nature
whatever, or with any animal, person, street sign, street post, water plug,
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mail box or any othe~ obstacle or object whatever in or on any street 1
roadway or highway, or any other public place whatever in the city limits
of the City of Lubbock. Violation of this section shall be known as the
offense of "Negligent Collision".
Section 2. Accident involving death or personal injury;
The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
in injury to or death or any person, shall immediately stop suCh vehicle at
the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible, and go forthwith
to the injured person or persons and shall remain at the scene of the acci-
dent until he has fulfilled the requirements of Sec. 4 of this Article.
Every such stop shall be maae in such a way as not to obstruct traffic.
Section 3. Accident Involving Damage to Vehicle;
The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
only in damage to a vehicle which is driven or attended by any person, shall
immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close
thereto as possible, and shall forthwith return to said damaged vehicle and
remain at the scene of such accident until he has fulfilled the requirements
of Section 4 of this Article. Every such stop shall be maae in such a way
as not to obstruct traffic.
Section 4. Duty to give information and Render Aid:
The driver o1· any vehicle involved in an accident, resulting
in injury to or death of any person, or damage to any vehicle which is driven
or attended by any person, shall give his name, address and the registration
number of the vehicle he is driving, and shall upon request, exnibit his
or her operator's or chauffeur's license to the person struck or to the
driver or occupants of or persons attending any ve~le collided with, or
any peace officer, and shall render to any person injured in such accident,
assistance, including the carrying or the making of arrangements for the
carPying of such person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or
surgical treatment, if it is apparent that such treatment is necessary, or
if such carrying is requested by the injured person.
Section 5. vuty Upon Striking unattended Vehicle'
The driver of any vehicle which collides with any vehicle
which is unattended, shall immediately stop, and shall then and there either
locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle of the name and
address of the driver or owner of the vehicle striking the unattended ve-
hicle, or shall leave secur.ely fastened in a conspicuous place in or on the
vehicle struck, a written notice, giving the name and address of the driver
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and of the ·owner of the vehicle d9ing the striking, and a statement of the
circumstances thereof.
Section 6. Duty Upon ~trik1ng Fixtures upon a Street,
Roadway or tlignway:
The ariver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
only in damages to fixtures legally upon or adjacent to a street, roadway
or highway, shall take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or
person in charge of such property of such fact, and of his n~e and address,
and of the registration number of the vehicle he is driving, and shall upon
request and if available, exhibit his operator's or chauffeur's license, and
shall make -report of such accident when and as required in Section 7 of
Art. 8.
Section 7. Duty to Report Accident:
(a)
ing in an injury to
The urivers of allvehicleginvolvea in an accident result-
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or death o.r any person," shall, wi thi~ 12 hours after
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such accident, forward a ....... report of such accident to the police
department of the City of Lubbock. :
(b) The Police Department of the City of Luboock may re-
quire any driver of a vehicle involved in an accident of which a report
must be made as provide<l herein, to file a supplemental report whenever the
original report is insufficient, and it is hereby made the duty of all
persons witnessing any accident or collision ot· a vehicle of any kind to
report the same to the Police Department of the Uity of Lubbock.
(c) When the driver or operator of a vehicle is unable
physicially to make the required accident report, if there was other
occupants of the vehicle at the time of the accident, capable or making the
report, such occupant or occupants shall make or cause to be made said re-
port.
ARTICLl!: IX.
PED~S'l1 RIANS
Section 1. Pedestrians Subject to Control Signals:
Pedestrians shall be subject to control signals at inter-
sections as hereinbefore required in this Ordinance, but at all other places
pedestrians shall be accorded tne privileges 1 and shall be subject to the
restrictions as hereafter stated.
Section 2. ~edestrians' Rignt of Way at uross-walks:
(a) Where trarf1c control a ignals are not in place or in
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operation, the driver or a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slow down,
or stop it· necessary, to so yield . ., to a pedestrian crossing the street,
roadway or highway within any marked cross-walk or within any unmarked cross-
walk at an intersection., except as otherwise provided in this Article.
(b) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked cross-walk
or at any unmarked cross"walk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian
to cross the street, roadway or highway, the driver of any vehicle approach-
ing from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
(c) Between any adjacent intersections at which traffic
control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place
except in a marked or unmarked cross-walk.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section., every
driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any
pedestrian upon any street, roadway or highway, ana Shall give warning by
sounding the horn when necessary, and shall exercise proper precaution
upon observing any child or any contused or incapacitated person upon a
street, roadway or highway.
Section 3. Pedestrians to Use Right Half of Cross-walk:
Pedestrians shall move and keep on the right bal1 of cross-
walks.
$ect1on 4. Pedestrians soliciting rides:
No person shall stand in a street, roadway or highway for the
purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver or any private vehicle, except
it be in a place duly marked and designated for such purpose.
Section s. Pedestrians shall observe, in addition to the
above the following rules and regulations:
(a) They shall stand on the sidewalk or within a safety zone
or island while waiting for a bus.
( b} They shall enter or leave a bus or a vehicle oi' any kind
at a sarety zone or cross walk only.
(c) Pedestrians shall, while waiting for a bus., stand on the
side of a sidewalk, either in or near the curb or the property line so as
not to interfere with other pedestrians.
AllTIC~ X.
MOVING V.t;!1l CL!!:~ AND SAF'.l!."l'Y ZvNES
Section 1. Boarding and alighting from moving vehicles
prohibited:
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No person shall board or alight from any vehicle while such
vehicle is in motion.
Section 2. Prohibiting Riding on outside of Motor Vehicle:
No person shall ride on any vehicle or upon any portion
thereor not designated or intended for the use or passengers. This provision
shall not apply to any employee engaged in the necessary discharge of his
duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies in the space intended for
merchandise.
Section 3. Driving through ~a~ety Zones prohioited:
No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a
safety zone or safety island.
ARTiCLE XI.
SAFb.'TY E\tUIPMJ!:NT ON VE.tUCIJ!;S
Section 1. Headlights on Motor Vehicles:
Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, shall be
equipped with two head lights, wbich shall be placed on opposite sides of
the front of said vehicle, and which headlights shall give sut'ficient
illumination under normal atmospheric conditions and on an approximately
level street, roadway or highway, to produce a light sufficient to render
clearly discernible all vehicles, persons or substantial objects 200 feet
ahead, but shall not produce glaring or dazzling lights to persons in front
or such vehicle. All motorcycles shall be equipped with at least one head-
ligpt, which shall give sufficient illumination under normal atmospheric
conditions and on an apporixmately level street, roadway or highway, to
produce a light surficient to render clearly discernible all vehicles,
persons or substantial objects for 200 feet ahead, but shall not produce
a glaring or dazzling light to persons in front of such headlight.
Section 2. Requiring Motor vehicles to be Equipped with
Brakes:
Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, when operat-
ing upon a street, roadway or highway within the city limits of the City of
Lubbock shall be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of
and to 8Dp and to hold such vehicle, including two separate means or
applying the brakes, each of which means shall be effective to apply the
brakes to at least two wheels. ~f these two separate means of applying the
• brakes are connected in any way, they shall be so constructed so that fail-
ure or any one part of the separate mechanical parts shall not leave the
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motor vehicle without brakes on at least two wheels. Any motor vehicle or
combination of motor vehicle trailor or semi-trailor, or other vehicle, shall
be equipped with brakes upon one or more oi· such vehicles., adequate to stop
such combination of vehicles in ary weather upon a reasonabLe level surface
within a distance or 45 feet from the spot where such brakes are first
applied, when such vehicles or combination of vehicles are traveling at a •
rate of speed of 20 miles per hour.
Section 3. Steering and Steering Gear:
No motor vehicle shall be driven upon the streets, roadways
or highways of the City of Lubbock when the 11 play11 in the steering wheel
is in excess of 3 inches mess~red on the periphery of the steering wheel.
The steer arms, tyrod, drag link or other mechanism by which the vehicle
is steered, and the associated parts, must be secure and free from excessive
"play" and/or wear. The ••tow-in" and "tow-out'1 shall not vary more than
one-quarter inch from the factory specifications. Rear wheels must be in
good condition and in alignment, so as not to have more than a 10 foot side
slip per mile, and the center bolt~ must be s .ecure in the rear springs.
The alignment of wheels shall be determined by a standard test as prescribed
and required by law.
Section 4. Windshields and window wipers•
(a) It shall be Wllawfu.l for any person to drive any vehicle
upon any atr~et, roadway or highway with any sign, poster or other non-
transparent material upon the front windshield. side wings. side or rear
windows of such motor vehicle. other than a certificate or other p~er
required to be so displayed by Law or authorized to be displayed by the City
of Lubbock. The windshield and windows of such vehicle shall be of trans-
parent materi~l so as to furnish the driver a clear and unobstructed view
to the front. sides and rear.
(b) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle shall be
equipped with a device for cleaning rain. snow or other mabture from the
windshield of the vehicle, which device shall be so constructed as to be
controlled and operated by the operator of the vehicle.
$ection 5. Rear view Mirrors:
No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a street, roadway
or highway, tmless such vehicle is equipped with a mirror, so located as
to reflect to the driver a ~iew oi the street, roadway or highway for a
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distance of at least 200 feet to the rear of such vehicle.
Section 6. Muffler required:
No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a street, roadway
or highway within the city limits or the City of Lubbock, unless such motor
vehicle is equipped with a muffler, in good working order and in constant
operation to prevent excessive or unusual noises, ·a:nnoying smoke ani the
escape of excessive gas or oil. All exhaust pipes carrying exhaust gases
from the motor shall be directed parallel with the ground or slightly up-
ward.
Section 7. Regulating all Motor Vehicles ana Bicycles to
be Equipped with alarm signals:
Every motor vehicle, motorcycle or bicycle, while being used
upon any of the streeta, roadways or highways or alleys or the . City of Lubbock
shall be provided with suitable bell, horn or otner signal device, in good
working order, capable of emitting a sound audible under normal conditions
for a distance of not less than 150 teet, to serve as a signal of warning.
~ut it shall be unlawfUl for any person operating any motor vehicle, motor-
cycle or bicycle to make or cause to be maae any unnecessary noise with such
bell, horn or other signal device, or to use the same except as a warning.
ARTICLJ!: XII.
MISCELLANEoUS PRvV.LSioNS
Section 1. Empowering City Commission to designate Safety
_ Z-ones, places for "stoptt 1 "Go" and ttslow" signals, and the place for install-
ation of such other signals, markers ana zones that may be deemed necessary:
The City Commission of the City or Lubbock is hereby ·author-
quiet and sick
iaed to designate by Resolution, Safet¥/Zones ,and the place where ''Stop",
"Go" and "slow" signals shall be placed, and. the further right to designate
the place where any sign, signal and. marker ana such other zones for safety
or otherwise as it may deem necessary for a proper contro.l and regulationot
traffic within the ~ity limits of the City of Lubbock.
Section 2. Regulating ana. Designating the Place for Loading
and Unloading Passengers on or from busses:
All busses permitted to be operated and used in the City or
Lubbock for transporting passengers over the Streets, roadways and highways
of said city shall stop, take on and unloaa passenger~ at street inter-
sections or at such other places as the city Commission may designate, and
it shall be unlawlul for any driver of such bus to stop the same in any
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part of a block for the purpose of taking on or unloading passengers at
any place except ~treet intersections or such other place as has been des-
ignated, unless directed to stop by a police officer or a fireman of the
City of Lubbock.
Section 3. Prohibiting the Painting and Marking of Streets
and the erection of signs prohibiting parking:
It shall be unlawful for any p~rson, fi~, association, co-
partnership or corporation to paint or cause to be painted upon any curb,
street or sidewalk or upon any sign, any wording of any kind that parking
at such place is prohibited or that any place in front or or alung side of
such painting, wording or sign is r~served. Nothing herein shall ever be
construed as prohibiting the ~ity of Lubbock, through its employees, from
painting signs on the curos, streets or sidewalks or signs, wnen directed
by the City Commission.
Section 4. Prohibiting the Parking of a vehicle that Ex-
tends more than 20 teet into the Street:
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to park
same in such a way as to permit it to extend into the street a distance
of more than 20 feet.
Section 5. Regulating vehicles equipped with sound devices,
and requiring the operators to secure a permit:
It shall be unlawful ana an offense for any person, f1~, co-
partnership, association or corporation to drive ana operate or .park upon
any street or alley in the City or Lubbock a vehicle of any kind, equipped
with a loud speaker, radio or any other kind ur sound equipment, and use
such vehicle, radio and souna equipment for commercial, political or any
other kind of advertisement or entertainment, unles~ the owner or operator
of such vehicle has made application fvr and secured a permit from the Uity
or Lubbock tor such purpose.
Section 6. Prohibiting the use of Loud Speakers and Ampli-
fiers for advertising and entertaining purposes:
It shall be unlaw!'ul anu an offense against the vrdinances or
the City of Lubbock for any person, fi~, co-partnership, association or
corporation to connect a luud speaker or amplifier of any kina to ~ radio,
talking machine or to any kina of machine which produces or reproduc~s
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sounds of any kind and when so connected, place said loud speaker or ampli-
fier on any building or vacant lot in the corporate limits of the City of
Lubbock, or place the same inside or any such building near an entrance
or window, or any opening in said building, or place such loud speaker or
amplifier on the sidewalk or in the street in front of any building or
-J along side of any building or vacant lot, and use or permit such loud
speaker or amplifier to be used to produce or reproduce sounds of any kind
for the purpose of advertising, entertaining or for any other purpose.
Nothing herein shall ever be construed as prohibiting the playing of a
radio or talking machine when not connected with a loud speaker or ampli-
fier in any building or on any vacant lot in the City of Lubbock.
Section 7. Prohibiting the use of Bands and Orchestras on
sidewalks and streets for advertising:
No person, firm, association, co-partnership or corporation
shall hire, employ or otherwise engage a brass band or orchestra to stand
on the sidewalks or in the streets, roadways or highways in front of such
person's, firm's, co-partnership's, association's or corporation's place
of business and play music for the purpose of advertising such person's,
firm's, association's, co-partnership's or corporation•s place of business.
Section a. Providing for the Enforcement of this ordinance:
It shall be the duty of the Police Department of the City of
Lubbock to enforce the provisions of this Ordin~ce.
Section 9. Not to Repeal Parking Meter Ordinance or any part
thereof:
Botbing in this Ordinance shall ever be construed as repeal-
ing all or any part of Ordinance No. S f.o t/=
Meter Ordinance.
, known as the Parking
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Section 10. Alli\Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in con-
flict herewith are hereby repealed.
AllTICLE XIII.
PENALTY AND PROCEDURE ON ARREST
Section 1. Procedure on arrest:
Any person arrested for violating any of the provisions of
this Ordinance shall be given a notice by the arresting officer to appear
before the Corporation Court of the City of Lubbock within 24 hours after
such arrest, and it shall be unlawfUl and an offense for any person to
disobey such notice.
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Section 2. Penalty:
Any person, firm, association, ~o-partnership or corporation
who shall violate any provision or provisions of this Or dina~ e shall be fined
in any sum not to exceed $100.00.
ARTICLE XIV.
UNCONSTITUTIONALITY CLAUSE
Should any Section, Paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
of this Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason,
the rem.ainder of said Ordinance shall not be affected thereby.
This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage
and publication as made and provided in the City Charter of the City of
Lubbock.
Passed and approved first reading this ~~~ day of November
A. D. 1937.
. " ,, Passed and approved second rz:l day
of December, A. D. 1937.
City Secre ary