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\;, ~ ORDINANCE NO 912
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~~ AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES ON THAT PART e-:: OF 17TH STREh"'T LYING BETViEEN TEXAS AVENUE AND AVENUE H; ESTABLISHING
PARALLEL PARKING ON SAID PART OF 17TH STREET; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL
FOR ANY PERSON TO PARK A VEHICLE ON SAID PART Ol L7TH STREET UNLESS
IT BE PARKED PARALLEL TO THE CURB AND WITHIN ONE ( 1) FOOT THEREOF;
AUTHORIZING THE PLACING OF PARALLEL PARKING SIGNS AND CURB MARKERS
THEREFOR; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERl:!.'NITH AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY.
WHEREAS, the City commission finds that 17th Street between
Avenue H and Texas Avenue is a part of the route traveled by Fire
Trucks going to the Southeast part of Lubbock and parallel parking
should be required in the interest of public safety and welfare,
therefore,
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to
park any yehicle on that part of 17th Street between Avenue
H and Texas Avenue unless such vehicle be parked parallel
to the curb and the wheels of such vehicle on the right hand
side be within one (1) foot of the curb or curb line.
SECTION 2. The Chief of Police is authorized and directed
to place uniform parallel parking signs· together with parallel
parking space marks on the curbs on the North and south sides
of 17th Street between Avenue H and Texas Avenue so as to put
the operators of motor vehicles on notice that parallel parking
is required.
SECTION 3. The provisions of any Ordinance or Ordinances ·here-
tofore passed regulating parking on 17ts street between
Avenue H and Texas are hereby repealed insofar as they affect
said part of 17th Street.
SECTION 4. Any person who shall violate any provision of
Section 1 of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in
any sum not exceeding ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00).
AND IT IS ·SO ORDERED.
Passed and approved by unanimous' vote of the City Commdssion
this 29th day of April , 1949.
Passed and approved by unanimous vote of the City Commission
this 12 j '1 \
day of -M~a~y~-----' 1949.