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ORDINANCE NO. --=5=0....,93..__ ___ _
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE 4251 OF
THE CITY OF LUBBOCK TO ADD A SCHOOL ZONE ON COLLEGE AVENUE
AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE BODY OF THIS ORDINANCE;
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CITY SECRETARY TO CAUSE PUBLICATION OF THE DESCRIPTIVE CAPTION
HEREOF AND THE PENALTY CLAUSE, SECTION 7, OF ORDINANCE 4251
AS AN ALTERNATE METHOD OF PUBLICATION PROV•IDED BY LAW.
WHEREAS., the governing body of the City of Lubbock, upon the basis
of an engineering and traffic investigation finds it necessary to alter the
prima facie speed limits established by Article 6701d, Section 166(a)i,
Vernonrs Annotated Texas Statutes as amended, Acts 1963, 58th Legislature,
Page 455, Chapter 181, within the area and at the location hamed and desig-
nated in the body of this Ordinance, all within the corporate limits of the
City of Lubbock and in the vicinity of school areas during periods of time when
the schools are ini •. session and school children are going to or from the schools
and playgrounds; and,
WHEREAS.., the governing body finds it necessary to make provision for
the regulation of moving vehicular traffic within such area regarding pass ing
and stopping for 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 measure
constituting an emergency, NOW THEREFOR.E:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK!
SECTION 1. THAT Section 2 of Ordinance 4251 of the City of Lubbock,
Texas> BE and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a new
Subsection, 32, which shall read as follows,to-wit:
1132. On College Avenue beginning 244 feet north of the north side of
56th Street and extending south for a distance of 530 feet."
SECTION 2. THAT the City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed
to cause publication of the descriptive caption hereof together with the penalty
clause~ Section 7~ of Ordinance 4251, as an alternate method of publication pro-
vided by law.
SECTION 3. THAT the enactment of this Ordinance being necessary to
the public safety and welfare of the pedestrian use of the street 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 ordinanc s
be presented at two separate meetings be dispensed with and this Ordinance
is declared to be an EMERGENCY MEASURE to take effect from and after
the date of its second publication.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED