HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 4906-1966 - Amending Section, Subsection 26 Of Ordinance No. 4251. - 01/20/1966.· GAS:bw
4906
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2., SUBSECTION 26 OF ORDINANC
NO., 4251 OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO,. 4541
SO AS TO REMOVE A SCHOOL ZONE ON 50TH STREET AND TO ADD A NEW
SCHOOL ZONE ON A VENUE U; AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NQ 4251
BY PROVIDING A NEW SUBSECTION 22 WHICH NUMBERED SUBSECTION WAS
DELETED BY ORDINANCE NO. 4541 AND WHICH NEW SUBSECTION 22 ADDS
A NEW SCHOOL ZONE ON 58TH STREET; ALL AS MORE PARTICULARLY
DESCRIBED IN THE BODY OF TH1S ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATIO
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCYit
WHEREAS.,. the City Council of the City of Lubbock has found on the basis
of engineering and traffic investigations that certain areas heretofore designated
as school zones with reduced speed limits are no longer necessary for the pro.,.
tection and safety of pedestrians crossing the streets within such areas; and,
WHEREASa the governing body of the City of Lubboc~ upon the basis of a
engineering and traffic investigation finds it necessary to alter prima facie speed
limits established by Article 6701d,. Section 166(a) 1., Vernonts Texas Civil
Statutes as amended Acts 1963, 38th Legislature., page 453., Chapter 161, within
the areas and at the locations named and designated in the body of this Ordinance~
all within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock and in the immediate vicinity
of school areas during periods of time when the schools are in session and school
children are going to or from the schools and playgrounds; and.,
WHEREAS., the governing body finds it necessary to make provision forth
regulation of moving vehicular traffic within such areas regarding passing and
stopping tor the protection and safety of pedestrians crossing the streets within
such areas; and,
WHEREAS~ it is necessary to the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety to provide for the immediate enactment of such measures con ...
stituting an emergency, NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1. THAT Subsection 26 of Section 2 of Ordinance 4251 of the
City of Lubbock. which, as amended by Section 4 of Ordinance No. 4541, now
reads as follows, to ... wit:
"On 50th Street beginning 200 feet East of the East side of Vanda
Avenue and extending West for 697 feet. rr
BE and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"On Avenue U beginning 150 feet South of the North side of 60th
Street,. and extending North for 300 feet."
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SECTION 2. THAT Section 2 of Ordinance 4251 BE and the same is here..,
by amended by the addition thereto of a new subsection 22, which numbered sub ...
section was deleted by Section 6 of Ordinance 4541, and which new subsection
shall read as follows,. to ... wit:
"On 58th Street beginning 165 feet West of the East side of Avenue
V and extending East for 330 feet. 1 ~
SECTION 3. THAT the City Se'?retary is hereby directed to cause
publication of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance once each week for two
consecutive weeks.
SECTION 4. THAT the enactment of this Ordinance being necessary to
the public safety and welfare of the pedestrian use of the streets in the school
areas herein designated and established is hereby declared to be an emergency
measure creating a public necessity that the rule providing that proposed ordinance~
be presented at two separate meetings be dispensed with and this Ordinance is de-
clared to be an emergency measure to take effect from and after the date of its
second publication.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED_.·
Passed by the City Council this~ day of ___ J_an_u_a_r...:y~--------'~ 1966.
Fred 0. Senter., Jr ... ~Attorney
'Approved
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AS$1. City Attorney
MAX TIDMORE~ Mayor