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ORDINANCE NO;" 4960 ~--~~~------~-
AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THE PORTIONS OF 15TH AND 16TH
STREETS FROM AVENUE B TO COLLEGE AVENUE AS ONE WAY STREETS AND
PERMITTING ONLY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC PROCEEDING WEST ON SAID POR ..
TION OF 15TH STREET AND PERMITTING ONLY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC PRO ..
CEEDING EAST ON SAID PORTION OF 16TH STREET; PROVIDING FOR SIGNS TO
INDICATE THAT SAID PORTIONS OF SAID STREETS ARE ONE WAY: PRESCRIB ...
ING A PENALTY; PROVIDlliG FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the immediate preservation of
public peace, property, health and safety requires that vehicular traffic on
Fifteenth Street from Avenue B to College Avenue should be permitted to proceed
only in a Westerly direction; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the immediate preservation of
public peace, property, health and safety requires that vehicular traffic on
Sixteenth Street from Avenue B to College Avenue should be permitted to proceed
only in an Easterly direction; all as more particularly hereinafter described;
NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1.. THAT portion of Fifteenth Street in the City of Lubbock,
Lubbo.ck County, Texas, from Avenue B.to College Avenue is hereby designated
a onewway street and only vehicular traffic proceeding West on Fifteenth Street
beginning at its intersection with Avenue B to its intersection with College Avenue
shall be permitted thereon.
SECTION 2. THAT portion. of Sixteenth Street in the City of Lubbock,
Lubbock County, Texas, from Avenue B to College Avenue is hereby designated
a one ... way street and only vehicular traffic proceeding East on Sixteenth Street
beginning at its intersection with Avenue B to its intersection with College Avenue
shall be permitted thereon.
SECTION 3. The traffic engineer is hereby authorized and directed to
place or cause the placing of the necessary traffic signs to indicate that the portion
of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets described in Sections 1 and 2 hereof are one ... way
Streets.
SECTION 4. Any person operating a vehicle in violation of the foregoing
provisions of this Ordinance shall upon conviction be fined any sum not to exceed
$200. oo.
SECTION 5. The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to
cause publication of this Ordinance once a week for two consecutive weeks in a
newspaper regularly published in the City of Lubbock1 Texas1 and this Ordinance
shall become effective ten (10) days after its last publication.