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ORDINANCE NO. 1367 -----
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE VIII. SECTION 2 (Cj AND ARTI-
CLE XI, SECTION 4 (,))OF ORDINANCE-NO. 890, ENTITLED 11AN ORDINANC
-DESIGNATED THE CITY OF LUBBOCK 1TRAFFIC ORDINANCE' BEING COM-
~)7-<j-,;; PREHENSIVE IN ITS SCOPE AND GENERALLY REGULATffiG IN THE PUBLIC tiL INTEREST THE USE OF STREETS AND ALLEYS AND OTHER PUBLIC WAYS
:J/L 'f' ~-~ i., IN TljE CITY OF LUBBOCK; J?EFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES /~ (/ L..-'L USED THEREIN; PROVIDING COMPLIANCE BY ALL PERSONS USING THE
f?.~«(FJ: .PUBLIC WAYS; ESTA}j'LISHING EXCEPTIONS FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES;
/ REQUIRING COMPLIANCE WITH AND REGULATING THE USE OF STREETS
h 'J-yet f/!J AND INTERSECTIONS WITH OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND
I (/ SIGNS; ADOPTING WORDING AND COLORS FOR SUCH SIGNS AND DEVICES
AND THEIR USE IN A TRAFFIC CONTROL LEG END FOR PEDESTRIANS
AND VEIDCULA.R TRAFFIC; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO DISPLAY UNAUTHOR
IZED SIGNS, SIGNALS OR MARKINGS, AND STATING EXCEPTIONS; AND
PROHIBITING THE ALTERATION AND DEFACING OF SUCH DEVICES; FUR-
THER PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR STOPPING, STANDING AND PARK-
ING IN COMPLIANCE WITH OFFICIALLY ERECTED SIGNS AND SIGNAL
DEVICES AND CURB MARKINGS; PROHIBITING USE OF STREETS FOR THE
SALE, WASHING AND GREASING OR REPAIR OF VEHICLES; PROHIBITING
DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL PROCESSIONS; PI..ACING·LIMITATlONS ON
TURNING IN STREETS, BACKING INTO ThTTERSECTIONS;. EMERGDilG FROM
AND ENTERING INTO ALLEYS OR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY; REGULATING
RIDll'ilG OF BICYCLES, MOTORCYCLESJ COASTERS, SLEDS, ROLLER
SKATES; PROHIBITING DRIVING MOTOR VEHICLE. WHILE INTOXICATED,
AND WANTON DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS. WHILE DRIVING
VEHICLES; ESTABLISHING SPEED LIMIT; REGULA.T.ThTG PART OF STREET
TO BE USED UNDER VARYING CIRCUMSTANCES; Dffi~CTING USE OF
STREETS MARKED INTO lANES; PROVIDING USE OF SIGNALS BY VEHICLE
OPERATORS; ESTABLISHING RIGHT OF WAY RULES AND YIELDING OF
RIGHT OF WAY TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL.FOR
OTHER THAN AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO USE BELLS OR
SIRENS; ESTABLISHING MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO PARKED OR
UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLES; OBSTRUCTION TO DRIVERS1 VIEW; /
LOADS EX.TENDING FROM VEHICLES; FOLLOWING FIRE APPARA TUSi
CROSSING FIRE HOSE; DISCARDING GLASS~ NAILS, ETC. IN STREETS; T lJE
REMOVAL OF WRECKED VEHICLES; BICYCLES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH
LAMPS; DEFINING THE TERM NEGLIGENT COLLISION AND PRESCR!BD.\T¢r'
THE DUTY OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN PROPER-
TY DAMAGE, PERSONAL INJURY AND DEATH,. INFORMATION TO BE J
GIVEN .BY PERSONS SO INVOLVED, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO INJURED
PERSONS, DUTY UPON STRIKING UNATTENDED VEHICLES OR FIXTURES
UPON STREETS; AND TO REPORT ACCIDENTS; PROVIDING COORDINA'I~D
USE OF INTERSECTIONS BY PEDESTRIANS AND VEHICLES, ESTABLLSHlNG
RIGHT OF WAY RULES AND REQUIRING DUE CARE TO AVOID COLLISIO:N;
ESTABLISHING SAFETY ZONES FOR BUS PATRONS; PROHIBITING BOARD-
ING AND ALIGHTING FROM MOVING VEHICLES• RIDING ON OUTSIDE OF
VEHICLES AND DRIVING THROUGH SAFETY ZONE; REQUIRJNG HEAD-
LIGHTS,. BRAKES, WINDSHIELDS AND WINDSHIELD WIPERS, REAR VIEW
MffiRORS AND MUFFLERS ON MOTOR VEHICLESi PROVIDING FOR INSTAL-
LATION OF SIGNAL DEVICES AND SIGNS AND ZONES BY THE CITY
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COMMISSION; DESIGNATING PLACES FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING BUS
PASSENGERS; PROHIB1TING UNAUTHORIZED .MARKING OF CURBS AND
STREETS; ESTABLISHING PARKING RULES IN BUSINESS DISTRICTS; PRO-
VIDING FOR THE IMPOUNDING OF ABANDONED VEHICLES; PROHIBITING
USE OF LOUD,SPEAKERS AND AMPLIFIERS ON VEHICLES FOR ADVERTIS-
ING AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES OR OTHER PURPOSES EXCEPT AS
AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY COMMISSION BY LICENSE OR PERMIT; PRO-
HIBITING USE OF BANDS OR ORCHESTRAS ON STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
FOR ADVERTISING; PRESCRIBIN'G ENFORCEMENT DUTIES; PROVIDING
PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL NOT REPEAL PARKING METER
ORDIN'ANCE; EXPRESSLY REPEALING ORDINANCES NOS. 57, 116, 141, 199,
234, 248, 265, 284, 301, 346, 357, 401, 403, 404, 424, 453, 463, 499, 520,
551, 552, 5.65 AND 575, AND EXPRESSLY SAVING THE PROVISIONS OF ALL
ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDERS ESTABLISHING 'BOULEVARDS'
AND REGULATING THE APPROACH OF VEHICLES THERETO, AS WELLAS
THE PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 614, RELATING TO COURTHOUSE
t;AFETY ZONES AND ORDINANCE NO. 840 RELATING TO TRAFFIC CONTRO
ON TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE CAMPUS AND FURTHER PROVIDING
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE CONSISTENT WITH
PROVISIONS OF THE UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS OF TEXAS; PROVIDING
PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE ON ARREST; SAVINGS CLAUSE AND PRES-
CRIBING DUTIES OF, CITY SECRETARY AND MANNER OF PUBLICATION AS
PROVIDED BY CHAPTER 264, PAGE 463, ACTS 1947 OF THE 50TH LEGISLA-
TURE AND EFFECTIVE DATE," SO AS TO EXCLUDE AN INTERSECTION OF
ALLEYS WITH PUBLIC S'TREETS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TERM
"INTERSECTION'' AS USED IN SECTION 2 {C) OF ARTICLE V~ AND SO AS
TO AUTHORIZE THE IMPOUNDING OF ANY VEHI€LE PARKED ON ANY PUB-
LIC STREET IN VIOLATIPN OF ANY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK I
UNDER THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE XI, SECTION 4 (5) OF
ORDINANCE NO. 890• PROVIDING A PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICA-
TION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Commission finds that the provisions of Article VIII,
Section 2 {c) of Ordinance No. 890, regarding pedestrian traffic between adja-
cent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, are ambig-
uous and should be amended so as to clarify the meaning of the word 11intersec-
tion11 as used therein; and,
WHEREAS, the City Commission finds that increased traffic and parking
requirements in all areas of the City of Lubbock have reached such proportions
that it is necessary, in the interest of public safety and property, to require
the impounding of vehicles parked on the public streets in violation of any
ordinance of the City of Lubbock; and,
WHEREAS, the .City Commission further finds that the above mentioned
amend.m.ents are necessary to immediately preserve the public peace, health,
safety, property and general welfare, constituting an emergency; NOW,
THEREFORE, ..
BE IT ORDAffi'ED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
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SECTION 1. That Section 2. (c) of Article VIII of Ordinance No. 890 BE,
and is hereby amended so that the same shall hereafter be ~s follows:
"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. The te.rm 'intersection' as used in this provi-
sion shall not be construed to include intersections of public alleys with
public st;eets, but the term 'intersection' shall be construed to include
only intersections of public streets, roadways or highways having a
regular or official name, or being more than twenty (2.0) feet in width."
SECTIGN .z. That Article XI, Section 4 {5), B£7<-and ia hereby amended
to hereafter read as follows:
"Any vehicle parked on any public street, or in an alley, or in front of
a fire hydrant, or on any part of a cross walk, or in any loading zone
in violation of any ordinance of the City of Lubbock and/ or statute of the
State of Texas, or abandoned on any public street, may, upon direction
of the Chief of Police, be removed from such place, impounded and taken
to such place designated by the Traffic Division of the Lubbock Police
Department, and an impounding fee of $2.. 50 plus storage shall be assessed
against such vehicle, and the owner or driver thereof, and collected
before stfch vehicle is released. Storage fee of fifty cents (50~) for each
twenty-four (24) bout's said vehicle is impounded is hereby assessed
against each such vehicle and the owner, and the same shall be collected
before such vehicle is released. The payment of the impounding fee shall
not constitute a defense to any charge against the driver or owner of such
vehicle for violating said traffic ordinance prohibiting or limiting such
parking. The fees herein provided for shall be charged and collected by
the City Recorder and accounted for, and such sums as may be collected
shall be used to defray the expense of impounding and transporting such
impounded vehicles. 11
SECTION 3. Any person who shall violate the provisiono of Section 1 (One)
of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not to exceed Two
Hundred Dollars ($200).
SECTION 4. Due to increased traffic congestion's creating a hazard injur-
ious to the public and the public's use of the streets, the enactment of this
Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure, thereby creating a public
necessity that t1ae rule requiring proposed ordinances to be presented at two (2.)
separate Conunission meetings be dispensed with and this Ordinance shall be
effective from the date of its passage, as provided by law.
SECTION s. The City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the publication
of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance, together with the penalty clause, as
provided by law.
This Ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of its
passage.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
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On motion of Commissioner Davis , seconded by Com---------------------
m issioner Carpenter , the foregoing Ordinance was approved
--~--------------------and passed on this the 23 day of AJ\ril , 1953, by the following --------------
vot e :
Commissioners voting 11 YEA11 : Carpenter,Davis & ha.yor Pro-tem Morris
Commissioners voting ''NAY"; None
Mayor .Pro-tem ATT~EST: ·~
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.. -.. THE STATE OF TEXAS }
COtJN#' OF LUBBOCK
J Erle Marie Brown
Before me Notary Public in and for Lubbock County, Texas, on
this day personally appeared Parker F • Prouty , President, .Perbftsher, of the
Avalanche-Journal Publishing Company, publishers of The Lubbock Morning Avalanche-
lubbock Evening Journal-Sunday Avalanche-Journal, who after being by me duly sworn
did depose and soy that said newspaper has been published continuously for more than
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fifty-two weeks prior to the first insertion of thi , No. at
Ordinance No . 1367 Lubbock County, Texas, and that the attached printed copy of the ________ _
Ava l anche-Journal is a true copy of the original and was printed in the said paper _________ _
on the following dotes: April JO and May 7' 1953
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