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ORDINANCE NO. 2444
AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 5908
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ORDINANCE NO. 2~4.1.
AN o'RDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18, ARTICLE VII, SE;:CTION
18-102 ENTITLED "IMPOUNDING OF ILLEGALLY PARKED OR ABANDONED
VEHICLEStt; AND INCREASING THE IMPOUNDING FEE TO THE SUM OF
FOUR DOLLARS ($4. 00); AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the Commission finds that the impounding fee now assessed
is unsufficient to defray the cost of impounding; and public necessity and con-
venience requires the immediate increase of such impounding fee creating an
emergency affecting a Department of the City; THEREFORE, ·
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1 •. Chapter 18, Article VII, Section 18-IOZ of the Lubbock
City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 18 -102. Impounding of illegally parked or abandoned vehicles.
Any vehicle parked on any public street, or in an alley, or in
front of a fire hydrant, or on any part of a crosswalk, or in any
loading zone in violation of any provision of this chapter or other
ordinance of the city or statute of the state, 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 as is designated
by the traffic division of the police department, and an impounding
fee of four dollars ($4. 00) plus storage shall be assessed against
such vehicles, and the owner or driver thereof, and collected before
such vehicle is released. A storage fee of fifty cents for each
twenty-four hours su::h vehicle is impounded is hereby assessed
against each such vehicle and the owner, and the same shall be
collected before such vehicle ~s released. The payment of the
impounding fee shall not constitute a defense to any charge against
the driver or owner of &ch vehicle for violating this chapter or
other traffic ordinances 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. (Ord. No. 1367, Sec. 2)"
SECTION 2. The fact that there is an immediate need to increase the
impounding fee as set out in the preamble of this Ordinance creates an emergenc
affecting the daily operation of a Department and requires the suspension of all
rules relating to the reading of ordinances on more than one day and the same
are hereby suspended and this Ordinance shall become final and effective on the
date of its approval and passage as an emergency measure.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
Passed by unanimous vote of the Commission this 27th day of March, 1958.