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ORDINANCE NO. __ ..:..49:..:::5:;.:5 _____ _
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 4251 AS
AMENDED BY ORDINANCES NO.a 4541 AND 4906 BY ADDING A NEW SUB""
SECTION 32 CREATING A SCHOOL ZONE ON 50TH STREET AS MORE PARTI..,
CULARLY DESCRffiED INTHE BODY OF THE ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY:·
WHEREAS~ the governing body of the City of Lubbock, upon the basis of
an engineering and traffic investigation finds it necessary to alter prima facie
speed limits established by Article 670ld, Section 166(a) 1, Vernonts Texas
Civil Statutes as amended Acts 1963, 38th Legislature, page 453, Chapter 161,
within the area and at the location named and designated in the body of this Ordi ...
nance, aU within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock and in the immediate
vicinity of school areas during periods of time when the school is in session and
school children are going to or from the school and playground; and,
WHEREAS,. the governing body finds it necessary to make provision for
the regulation of moving vehicular traffic within such area regarding passing and
stopping for the protection and safety of pedestrians crossing the streets within
such area; 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 Section 2 of Ordinance No. 4251 of the City of
Lubbock, Texas BE and the same is hereby amended by adding a new Subsection
32 which shall read as follows:
11 32. On 50th Street beginning 150 feet east of the east property
line at Quirt Avenue and extending west for 400 feet. 11
SECTION 2. THAT the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause pub-
lication of the descriptive caption of this Ordinance once each week for two con"
secutive weeks.
SECTION 3. THAT the enactment of this Ordinance being necessary to
the public safety and welfare of the pedestrian use of the streets in the school
area herein designated and established is hereby declared to be an emergency
measure creating a public necessity that the rule providing that proposed ordi-
nances be presented at two separa te meetings be dispensed with and this Ordi ...
nance is declared to be an emergency measure to take effect from and after, the
date of its second publication.
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AND IT IS SO ORDERED ..
Passed by the City Council this lOth day of _..-JMI:&iaur;;.,i;c;.uh ______ .:~ 1966.
MAX TIDMORE~· Mayor
ATTEST:
APPROVED: